- Politics and government, Constitutional history, Constitutional law, Constitution
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Cool, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Walter Bagehot
- First published
- 1867
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, Nelson, Oxford Univ. Press
- Editions
- 58
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781898723714
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First sentence
“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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