A new country, if it is to be capable of a Cabinet government, if it is not to degrade itself to Presidential government, must create that Cabinet out of its native resources--must not rely on these Old World debris.
Bagehot argues that new nations must develop their own governance structures rather than relying on outdated European models.
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The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
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