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The head of the Government must be a man of the most consummate ability.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The head of the Government must be a man of the most consummate ability.”
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Bagehot argues that the leader of a government must possess exceptional skills and intelligence.
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The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.
And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
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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