Walter Bagehot: “Nothing could be more unlike those Parliaments than the average mass of the constituency from which they were chosen.”

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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

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