It acknowledges as its secondary electors--as the choosers of its government--an educated minority, at once competent and unresisted; it has a kind of loyalty to some superior persons who are fit to choose a good government, and whom no other class opposes.
Bagehot argues that a nation may recognize an educated minority as the legitimate electors of its government.
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