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Popular Government Popular Government by Henry James Sumner Maine
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“The natural condition of mankind . . . is not the progressive condition. It is a condition not of changeableness but of unchangeableness.”
― Henry James Sumner Maine, Popular Government
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“The Constitutional composition of the [United States] Senate is . . . a negation of equality.”
― Henry James Sumner Maine, Popular Government
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“Democracy is most accurately described as inverted Monarchy.”
― Henry James Sumner Maine, Popular Government
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“There can be no more formidable symptom of our time, and none more menacing to popular government, than the growth of Irreconcileable bodies within the mass of the population.”
― Henry James Sumner Maine, Popular Government
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