The genuine representatives of the country would be men of one marked sort, and the genuine representatives for the county men of another marked sort, but very opposite: one would have the prejudices of town artisans, and the other the prejudices of county magistrates.
Bagehot contrasts the prejudices of urban and rural representatives in parliament.
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And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.
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.
We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.
The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
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