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?.5 Admisn

So long as they keep on foot any such restrictive /repressive/ /suppressive/ measures the representatives of the people demonstrate that their intention is with or without the concurrence of the Monarch to possess and exercise power altogether despotic and arbitrary

Sooner or later Sooner or later the Constitution under which such measures have place is sure to terminate either in a Monarchical /pure/ despotism or in a representative /pure/ democracy: in the despotism if the people continue under subjection to it /the yoke/: in a /the/ representative democracy, if they rise and throw it off.

For a time, shorter or longer according to the degree of maturity in the public mind the leaders, under whose guidance the change was made from the pure to the mixt Monarchy, will set bounds to the sinister sacrifice: while the memory of past sufferings is recent /sufferings are fresh in memory/, they will be content to barter power for security - for that security in which /they share with/ the subject many share with them: while the universal indigence will oppose to rapacity a considerable efficient check and even sympathy for the subject-many in quality of fellow-sufferers and fellow-actors will contribute its share in softening the harshness of the oppression they exercise /moderating the weight of their yoke/. But as in the lapse of time, the image of the former sufferings grows fainter and fainter, wealth under /in/ the comparative state of general security accumulates, and in a proportion more or less considerable the patience of the subject many changes into impatience from being fellow-sufferers and fellow-actors, become critics, censors and remonstrants, the quantity of the matter of wealth operating in the hands of the executive in the character of matter of corruption being at the same time continually upon the encrease and along with it, on the part of the peoples representatives the habit of receiving it and being governed by it, the Monarch instead of an adversary being all the while a confederate, the appetite for power and money bears sway in each breast without controul, and being [...?] by the matter of corruptive influence /with the matter of corruptive influence for a [...?...?]/, the result is a Monarchico Aristocratical yoke more afflictive because more difficult to shake off, than even a purely Monarchical one.