But, by an odd fatality, there was in the recesses of the Constitution an old prerogative which would have rendered agitation needless--which would have effected, without agitation, all that agitation could have effected.
Bagehot notes an old prerogative within the Constitution that could have achieved reform without public agitation.
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Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
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.
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