Walter Bagehot: “The competing constituency is the nation itself, and this is…”

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The competing constituency is the nation itself, and this is, according to theory and experience, in all but the rarest cases, a bad constituency.

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Bagehot critiques the nature of the constituency in a presidential election, suggesting it is often not ideal.

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Walter Bagehot: “The competing constituency is the nation itself, and this is, according to theory and experience, in all but the rarest…”