He was the first great Colonial Minister of England who ever set himself to introduce representative institutions into ALL her capable colonies, and the difficulty stared him in the face that in those colonies there were hardly enough good people for one assembly, and not near enough good people for two assemblies.
Bagehot highlights the challenges faced by early colonial ministers in establishing representative institutions in colonies with limited qualified individuals.
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The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
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