I have endeavoured to explain how difficult it is for inexperienced mankind to take to such a government; how much more natural, that is, how much more easy to uneducated men is loyalty to a monarch.
Bagehot argues that inexperienced individuals find it more natural to be loyal to a monarch than to adapt to a parliamentary system.
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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.
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They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.
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