A republic has only difficult ideas in government; a Constitutional Monarchy has an easy idea too; it has a comprehensible element for the vacant many, as well as complex laws and notions for the inquiring few.
Bagehot contrasts the complexities of a republic with the more accessible nature of a constitutional monarchy.
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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.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
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