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Every instructed theologian would say that it was the duty of a person born under a Republic as much to obey that Republic as it is the duty of one born under a Monarchy to obey the monarch.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot emphasizes the duty of citizens to obey their respective governments.
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