The arrangements of the British constitution have, for all their theoretical instability, a very firm and definite standing in the political habit of Englishmen: and the greatest of those arrangements can be done away with only by the extraordinary force of conscious revolution.
Wilson discusses the stability of the British constitution despite its theoretical instability, emphasizing the role of public sentiment.
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