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Quote by Walter Bagehot
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, t

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – Walter Bagehot

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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. – Walter Bagehot

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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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