...attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men — by the fear that if you vote...warm partisans. The body is eager, but the atoms are cool. If it were otherwise, parliamentary government would become the worst of governments — a sectarian...

...attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men — by the fear that if you vote...warm partisans. The body is eager, but the atoms are cool. If it were otherwise, parliamentary government would become the worst of governments — a sectarian...

...attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men, — by the fear that if you...seem odd to say so, just after inculcating that party organization is the vital principle of representative government, but that organization is permanently...

...by a belief in the principles those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men—by the fear that if you vote against them, you may yourself...warm partisans. The body is eager, but the atoms are cocl. If it were otherwise, parliamentary government would become the worst of governments—a sectarian...

...attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles those men represent, and they are MAINTAINED by fear of those men — by the fear that if you vote...seem odd to say so, just after inculcating that party organization is the vital principle of representative government, but that organization is permanently...

...attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men — by the fear that if you vote...them, you may yourself soon not have a vote at all." (Bagehot, "The English Constitution," pp. 210-211.) responsibility of the individual member is an effort...

...parties together ... a solid mass of steady votes . . . are maintained by fear of [the leaders] — by fear that if you vote against them, you may yourself soon not have a vote at all. (Bagehot 1936: 115-16) Lowell, writing forty years later, noted that "when men recognize that the defeat...

...attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote...them, you may yourself soon not have a vote at all' (p. 101). To the fear of dissolution, as a disciplinary weapon of a ministry over its followers, he...