Mai 5, 1789.
[104] In the Constitution of Scotland, during the Stuart reigns, a
committee sat for preparing bills; and none could pass, but those
previously approved by them. This committee was called Lords of
Articles.
[105] When I wrote this I quoted from memory, after many years had
elapsed from my reading the passage. A learned friend has found it and
it is as follows:--
[Greek: To ethos to auto, kai ampho despotika ton beltionon, kai ta psephismata
hosper ekei ta epitagmata, kai ho demagogos kai ho kolax hoi autoi
kai analogon. kai malista d' hekateroi par' hekaterois ischuousin, hoi
men kolakes para tois turannois, hoi de demagogoi para tois demois tois
toioutois.]
"The ethical character is the same: both exercise despotism over the
better class of citizens; and decrees are in the one what ordinances and
arrets are in the other: the demagogue, too, and the court favorite, are
not unfrequently the same identical men, and always bear a close
analogy; and these have the principal power, each in their respective
forms of government, favorites with the absolute monarch, and demagogues
with a people such as I have described."--Arist. Politic. lib. iv. cap.
4.
[106] De l'Administration des Finances de la France, par Mons. Necker,
Vol. I. p. 288.
[107] De l'Administration des Finances de la France, par M. Necker.
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