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A sagacious and original constitutional monarch might go to his grave in peace if any man could.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot suggests that a wise constitutional monarch can find peace in their role.
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That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
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.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
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