Walter Bagehot: “The steps were many, but the energy was one--the growth of the English middle-class, using that word in its most…”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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

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

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.