Walter Bagehot: “The imitative propensity at once insures uniformity; and 'that horrid thing we wore last year' (as the phrase may go) is…”

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.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.