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In the one case in which we can unanswerably test the modern spirit, it was right, and the dubious Upper House--the House which would have rejected it, if possible--was wrong.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot claims that the modern spirit was validated in a specific legislative instance against the House of Lords' opposition.
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