...and journalist Walter Bagehot had said the most perceptive things about the institution of Monarchy: 'The best reason why monarchy is a strong government...hardly anywhere in the world understand any other' as well as 'So long as the human heart is strong and human reason weak. Royalty will be strong because...

...Johnson In his reflections on the nineteenth-century British Constitution, Walter Bagehot remarks: "It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say that they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations" ([1867] 1963, 82). In this chapter I...

...importance. The best reason why Monarchy is a strong govemment is, that it is an intelligible govemment, The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly...by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say that they are govemed by the weakness of their imaginations. This is both true and important. Monarchy...

...understood and accepted, they will not be worth much. As Bagehot puts it in his defense of monarchy, "The best reason why monarchy is a strong government...is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understands it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other" (1968, 726). In other words,...

...of the world. Welter Bagehot has stated, "The best reason why monarchy is strong government is that is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind...hardly anywhere in the world understand any other." In ancient India, monarch was supposed to be a god on earth. He was supposed to be full of excellent...