On the record
If we look at history, we shall find that it is only during the period of the present reign that in England the duties of a constitutional sovereign have ever been well performed.
Said by
Walter Bagehot
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Bagehot reflects on the performance of constitutional sovereigns in England during the current reign.
Share
More from Walter Bagehot
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
