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"[Infrequent elections mean] the state is exposed to the perils of a revolution, [frequent elections mean,] to perpetual mutability; the former system threatens the very existence of the government, the latter prevents any steady and consistent policy. The Americans have preferred the second of these evils to the first.... Hence their legislation is strangely mutable."-p 206
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"[Infrequent elections mean] the state is exposed to the perils of a revolution, [frequent elections mean,] to perpetual mutability; the former system threatens the very existence of the government, the latter prevents any steady and consistent policy. The Americans have preferred the second of these evils to the first.... Hence their legislation is strangely mutable."-p 206
