There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution - a Constitution that is in actual work and power.
Walter BagehotSource: The English Constitution
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There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution - a Constitution that is in actual work and power.
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