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this necessitates the selection and separation from the rest of those who have to take the helm in

political affairs; to decide; concerning them; and to give orders to other citizens; with a view to the

execution of their plans。 If; e。g。; even the people in a Democracy resolve on a war; a general must

head the army。 It is only by a Constitution that the abstraction … the State … attains life and reality;

but this involves the distinction between those who mand and those who obey。 … Yet

obedience seems inconsistent with liberty; and those who mand appear to do the very

opposite of that which the fundamental idea of the State; viz。 that of Freedom; requires。 It is;

however; urged that; … though the distinction between manding and obeying is absolutely

necessary; because affairs could not go on without it … and indeed this seems only a pulsory

limitation; external to and even contravening freedom in the abstract … the constitution should be at

least so framed; that the citizens may obey as little as possible; and the smallest modicum of free

volition be left to the mands of the superiors; … that the substance of that for which

subordination is necessary; even in its most important bearings; should be decided and resolved on

by the People … by the will of many or of all the citizens; though it is supposed to be thereby

provided that the State should be possessed of vigour and strength as a reality … an individual

unity。 … The primary consideration is; then; the distinction between the governing and the governed;

and political constitutions in the abstract have been rightly divided into Monarchy; Aristocracy;

and Democracy; which gives occasion; however;

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