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Crossman occasionally lapses into the same mechanistic liberal-realism which afflicted Bagchot's account of the English Constitution. He would discuss politics exclusively in terms of the management and the exercise of power. He would congratulate the masses for their "bovine stupidity" and then ignore them. True, the party machine introduces a popular element, though still at one remove, into the operations of government. But as the dynamic of social change, the party remains autonomous of the public in formulating policy. "All the new ideas come from the rank and file who are always out of tune with the majority...
Preliminary Definitions-North American Review, vol. 118. p. 1a, Von Holst, Constitutional Law, 32; Freeman's Growth of the English Constitution, chapter 3; Bagchot's English Cons. "Changes of Ministry...
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