But even after due allowance for the full weight of this protective machinery, our House of Commons is, as all such chambers must be, subject to sudden turns and bursts of feeling, because the members who compose it change from time to time.
Bagehot points out that the House of Commons is subject to emotional fluctuations due to changing membership.
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The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
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