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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Walter Bagehot: "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."

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Again	Ballotbox	Despotism	Electing
Except	Gone	Government	Influence
Instant	Moment	Must	Nation
Presidential	Returns	Till	Under
Virtue	Wait

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