It enables the popular will--the will of which the executive is the exponent, the will of which it is the appointee--to carry out within the Constitution desires and conceptions which one branch of the Constitution dislikes and resists.
Bagehot highlights the role of the executive in representing the popular will within the Constitution.
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In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.
If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.
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