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Quote by Walter Bagehot
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the elect

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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