Walter Bagehot: “In England a strong Cabinet can obtain the concurrence of the legislature in all acts which facilitate its…”

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.