Walter Bagehot: “A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”

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.

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

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.