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THE FUTURE OF ENGLAND
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numbers, its authority tends in a like ratio to slide into autocracy. Therefore, the old balances and checks, the counter-weights and counter-checks, of the constitution of our fathers stand in danger of the judgment, so that, however much we prize them, we must not pin all our political faith to these. Only where policy rests on an eternal code, can freedom find sanctuary, whence to say usque huc venies to despotism itself.
