1818 Aug. 25

Things as they are - First lines &c.

§.1. Misrule Necessity

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4. In proportion as the powers /power/ of government is in the hands of one, the government is called monarchical; of a few, aristocratical; of all or many, democratical.

5. A self-acting democracy is where the powers /in the exercise/ of government the members of the political community are all of them {constantly} employed: a representative democracy, is where the all or the many choose a few by whom the powers of government - that is to say all other powers except that which is exercised by this choice - shall be exercised. In no political community the population of which exceeds that of a single town, nor that a very large an one, can a self acting democracy have place. Time for meeting /No meeting /In no democracy/, no government/ with sufficient frequency for the management of the concerns of all would not be compatible with the time necessary for the providing and securing the means of continuing their existence: nor would even the capacity of meeting and acting in a body be present to so great a multitude.