Walter Bagehot: “Up to the latest period the sovereign was supposed, to a most mischievous extent, to interfere in the choice of the…”

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.