text:  Nay rather if we look at this boasted constitution a little more narrowly and instruct ourselves as to its practical working what do we see? "Historical experience the great teacher of political science manifestly shows that in these dynamical states which exist by the cunningly devised balance and counter-balance of different powers what is called governing is in truth a continual strife and contention between the Ministry and the Opposition who seem to delight in nothing so much as in tugging and tearing the state and its resources to pieces between them while the hallowed freedom of the hereditary monarch seems to serve only as an old tree under whose shades the contending parties may the more comfortably choose their ground and fight out their battles