Walter Bagehot: “Tried by their own aims, the founders of the United States were wise in excluding the Ministers from Congress.”

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

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.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.