Posted by lynn allin on October 11, 2005 at 19:39:11:
In Reply to: Re: race applications posted by Joseph Rolison on October 11, 2005 at 11:45:33:
When there is a Part in a Government which can do no wrong, it implies that it does nothing; and is only the machine of another power, by whose advice and direction it acts. What is supposed to be the King in the mixed Governments, is the Cabinet; and as the Cabinet is always a part of the Parliament, and the members justifying in one character what they advise and act in another, a mixed Government becomes a continual enigma; entailing upon a country by the quantity of corruption necessary to solder the parts, the expense of supporting all the forms of government at once, and finally resolving itself into a Government by Committee; in which the advisers, the actors, the approvers, the justifiers, the persons responsible, and the persons not responsible, are the same persons...the man himself.
Lynn "web sampler" Allin
(the above taken from a Yale Law review of modes of government..except for that part on the end about the man...that was mine)