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The usefulness of the open mode and at the same time its undangerousness being thus

manifest, a natural question is how happens it never to have been any where in use?

Natural enough this question: nor is the answer a difficult one. In the prevalence of

the interest of rulers in the breast of rulers over the interest of subjects /the people

subject to their rule/ may be seen the solution of this as of so many other problems.

The smaller the number is of those who are admitted to the exercise of the initiative

function, the greater /more efficient/ is the power of those by whom the consummative

function /power/ is exclusively exercised. If a law or a measure be unacceptable to you,

prevent it from coming in you get rid of it with much less trouble than if after

suffering to come in you had had to apply your strength to throw it out: and the smaller

the number is of those to /by/ whom the faculty of bringing in any such law or measure

is possessed open/, the less the greatest difficulty you can experience in your

endeavours to keep it from being brought in. The most obvious and simple course is

manifestly the confining the faculty of introducing a law or measure to those on /by/

/to whom/ /all/ or on a majority of whom appertains the faculty of giving binding force

to it Give the initiative function to a single person, excluding from it at the same

time all those by a /to whom or a/ majority of whom the consummative power appertains,

you put it in his power to reduce theirs to absolute nothing. Give that same initiative

function to a single person without the addition of any such exclusion, their power is

not destroyed indeed: but still it is to a certain degree weakened.