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But there is a still worse case, a case which the life of George III.--which is a sort of museum of the defects of a constitutional king--suggests at once.
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Bagehot uses the example of George III to illustrate the shortcomings of constitutional kings.
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Political philosophy is still more imperfect; it has been framed from observations taken upon regular specimens of politics and States; as to these its teaching is most valuable.
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner.
These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.
But it is natural also that persons used to analyse political institutions should look at these anomalies with a little tenderness and a little interest.
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