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He is elected in one way, at one time, and Congress (no matter which House) is elected in another way, at another time.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “He is elected in one way, at one time, and Congress (no matter which House) is elected in another way, at another time.”
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Bagehot highlights the differences in the electoral processes of the American President and Congress, emphasizing their disconnect.
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The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
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.
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