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Where no one knows, or cares for, or respects any one else all must rank equal; no one's opinion can be more potent than that of another.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot reflects on the equality of opinions in a society where respect and knowledge are absent.
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Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
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.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.
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