The things we do!

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Powers of the Central Government. - The Assembly on the partition of
power. - Rupture of every tie between the Legislature and the King.
- The Assembly on the subordination of the executive power. - How
this is nullified. - Certainty of a conflict. - The deposition of
the King is inevitable.
Let us first consider the two central powers, the Assembly and the
King. - Ordinarily when distinct powers of different origin are
established by a Constitution, it makes, in the case of conflict
between them, a provision for an arbiter in the institution of an
Upper Chamber. Each of these powers, at least, has a hold on the
other. The Assembly must have one on the King: which is the right
to refuse taxation. The King must have one on the Assembly: which
is the right of dissolving it. Otherwise, one of the two being
disarmed, the other becomes omnipotent, and, consequently, insane.
The peril here is as great for an omnipotent Assembly as it is for
an absolute King. If the former is desirous of remaining in its
right mind, it needs repression and control as much as the latter.


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