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On free trade, for example, no one can doubt that the Lords--in opinion, in what they wished to do, and would have done, if they had acted on their own minds--were utterly wrong.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot asserts that the House of Lords was fundamentally wrong about free trade.
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