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In a constitution of the representative kind, the perfection
thus consists in this – viz. in the perfection of the degree
of dependence in which those by whose hands is the exercise of the
supreme effective power are dependent placed under in them in whose
hands is lodged the constitution or constitutional
power.
Not conformable however but altogether unconformable
to and altogether incompatible with this stage of things arrangement,
is the current theory in this subject is the theory
laid down by writers in the English Constitutional.
This theory or principle may be styled for shortness
the theory of he ballance of power: and when developed and the characteristic
terms implanted and framed with a proposition, the proposition is
to cause such effect as this – viz. that it is right
that the is in other words that it is for the interest
of the people that the people should possess a certain portion
to a certain amount of the aggregate mass
of constitutive power, but that in some hand or
hands other than those of the people there should
be another a another portion to a certain amount of that
same sort of power, employed in balancing serving
as a balance to that portion which is in the hands of
the people.
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