Walter Bagehot: “The State of Delaware is NOT equal in power or influence to the State of New York, and you cannot make it so by giving…”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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