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mischief of delay is obviated by confining the application giving the principle
of this principle to their functions of government of division a greater or less degree of energy according as the function it is applied to admitts of
more or less deliberation. Legislative power and military
power form in this respect the two extremes:
the former requiring admitting of the greatest deliberation: the latter
requiring the greatest promptitude. As to the dissolution of the
government it is a mischief only upon one or
other of two rations: so that the new one is
worse than the old: 2. that the passage from one
to the other is marked by a civil war. the miseries of war.
In subordinate councils might not the following
arrangement in some instances cases diminish the disadvantages
without affecting the advantages?
In subordinate councils there is always one
person who is more depended upon than the rest.
the chief reasons of joining the others in why it is that others should be formed with
him is that he may profit by their intelligence
and that they may be ready to bear witness against
him to the higher powers in case of his misbehaviour.
any departure his departures of his from the line of his duty. But it
is not necessary to either of those purposes that their
votes should be on a par with his or even that they
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