So utterly false is this doctrine that it is a remarkable peculiarity, a capital excellence of the British Constitution, that it contains a sort of Upper House, which is not of equal authority to the Lower House, yet still has some authority.
Bagehot asserts that the British Constitution's structure of the Houses is uniquely effective.
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All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.
There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
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.
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