Walter Bagehot: “The conditions of life are so simple and so unvarying that any decent sort of rules suffice so long as men know what…”

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.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.