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Walter Bagehot: But in truth the English Constitution is the type of the opposite species; it has only one authority for all sorts of…

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But in truth the English Constitution is the type of the opposite species; it has only one authority for all sorts of matters.
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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot claims that the English Constitution exemplifies a system with a single authority for all matters.

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