And the many and various constitutional governments so established, commonly under British auspices in some degree, have invariably run true to form, in some appreciable degree.
They may be quasi-dynastic or pseudo-dynastic, but at this nearest approach to democracy they always, and unavoidably, include at least a circumlocution office of gentlefolk, in the way of a ministry and court establishment, whose place in the economy of the nation's affairs it is to adapt the run of these affairs to the needs of the kept classes.
There need be no imputation of sinister designs to these gentlefolk, who so are elected by force of circumstances to guard and guide the nation's interests.

As things go, it will doubtless commonly be found that they are as well-intentioned as need be.

But a well-meaning gentleman of good antecedents means well in a gentlemanly way and in the light of good antecedents.

Which comes unavoidably to an effectual bias in favor of those interests which honorable gentlemen of good antecedents have at heart.

And among these interests are the interests of the kept classes, as contrasted with that common run of the population from which their keep is drawn.
Under the auspices, even if they are only the histrionic and decorative auspices, of so decorous an article of institutional furniture as royalty, it follows of logical necessity that the personnel of the effectual government must also be drawn from the better classes, whose place and station and high repute will make their association with the First Gentleman of the Realm not too insufferably incongruous.