Capitolo 43
"order" the strength, in the case of the composite Christian Democrat as in that of the
Individual autocrat, tries not together not a mixed, and so in the end
an intolerable, bad.
This way while a change of the Executive and Legislative branches of the
it is probable that government is not simultaneously effected always, selecting
seven years as the presidential term the election would be brought
around, as frequently as it would be, not complicated alone, from local
problems connected with the fortunes or the political fate of individual
candidates for office, if is, Congressional, or Senatorial; and
during the seven years of estate, four, at least that it is probable that I/you/he/she am reasonably
preoperating, the promotion of a policy would be devoted to defined, in
one year-old place in a term of four, as now. If also ineligible for
reelection there is at least an equitable conceitedness that the occupant of
the position was able from you start to end you are applied to its duties and
obligations, without therefrom to be distracted from further personnel
thin as continually as it humanly held in sight.
You being cleared so of the judicial arrangement and the Executive of firm, we come the
Legislative. And here I submit it is the weak point our American
system,--openly the weak point, and to those that, as I, have
it had occasion to know, undeniably this way. I am here as a journalist; not as a
writer of monographs: then, on this head, I don't now propose to dilate or
you bear witness. I will only shortly say that having to one period, and for
more than the life of a generation, is responsible of great
social and financial affairs, I have had a lot of occasion to give with
legislative bodies, National the State and Town. That page of mine
experiences are what I desire the less one to recall, and it are able more gladly
you forget. I won't specify, or it give names of place or
people; but, knowing what I know, it is useless to draw near on this
fears with the usual benevolent and optimistic, if rather hypocrite