Walter Bagehot: “No one will tell it that the educated minority whom it dethroned…”

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No one will tell it that the educated minority whom it dethroned governed better or more wisely than it governs.

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Walter Bagehot

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He states that the public will not be informed that the educated minority previously governed better than the current majority.

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Walter Bagehot: “No one will tell it that the educated minority whom it dethroned governed better or more wisely than it governs.”