of to a right of representation. The grand political problem is to invent the best combination of the powers legislation and execution; they must exist in the State, just as in the revolution of planets, one power would fix them to a centre, and another carry them off indefinitely; but the first and simple principle is EQUALITY and THE POWER OF THE WHOLE." "Nor do the political and civil rights of the British colonists rest on a charter from the Crown. Old Magna Charta was not the beginning of all things, nor did it rise on the borders of chaos out of the unformed mass. A time may come when Parliament shall declare every American charter void; but the natural, inherent, and inseparable rights of the colonists, as men and as citizens, would remain, and, whatever became of charters, can never be abolished till the general conflagration." "Acts of Parliament against the fundamental principles of the British Constitution are void." "The world is at the eve of the highest scene of earthly power and grandeur that has ever yet been displayed to the view of mankind. "Who will win the prize is with God. But human nature must and will be rescued from the general slavery that has so long triumphed over the species."--Otis, "On the American Crisis, 1764." To this add the words of Jefferson : "Men by their constitutions," said Jefferson, 66 are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the People, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes; 2. Those who identify themselves with the People, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise, depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves." But it must never be forgotten, that whilst the excellence of Statesmanship is that it understands the People and the system, and adjusting the one to the other, prepares to raise them both, yet the ultimate vindication and warrant of all political action consists only in this,-that it prepares fair conditions and a clear stage for the development of the spiritual manhood of nations. Thus, throughout, are politics related to the final, the universal, and the infinite. Reform Club, ON DEMOCRACY. CHAPTER VIII.-Democracy and National Unity; Individuality and Nationality; Powers of Association and Nationality; The |