Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot was an essayist and journalist,[1] best known for his book The English Constitution.

Bagehot was highly influential with Woodrow Wilson,[2] who described Bagehot as a "Wit and Seer" who was "one of the most original and audacious wits that the English race has produced".[3] Bagehot was hostile toward the American Constitution.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ The Tangled Complexity of the EU Constitutional Process: The Frustrating Knot of Europe
2. ↑ US President Woodrow Wilson: Bagehot's Greatest Fan
3. ↑ The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 82
4. ↑ The American Civil War in the Shaping of British Democracy