Walter Bagehot: “The nation needs it quite as much as the king ever needed it.”

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

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

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.