Walter Bagehot: “He began to break up the binding polity which was what men wanted in…”

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He began to break up the binding polity which was what men wanted in that age, though eager and inventive minds always dislike it.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot discusses the tension between societal structure and individual innovation in governance.

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The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

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Walter Bagehot: “He began to break up the binding polity which was what men wanted in that age, though eager and inventive minds always…”