Or, if I may say so, an ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered.
Bagehot uses a metaphor to illustrate how an evolving constitution can appear unchanged on the surface while undergoing significant transformations.
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But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
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 have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.
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