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He is not the choice of the nation, he is the choice of the wire-pullers.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “He is not the choice of the nation, he is the choice of the wire-pullers.”
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Bagehot critiques the influence of political manipulators in the presidential selection process.
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In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.
That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
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