Quote: a monarchy is less likely to dissolve in civil war than an assembly; avoids different opinions

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8. Lastly, the greatest inconvenience that can happen to a commonwealth , is the aptitude to dissolve in civil war; and to this are monarchies much less subject, than any other governments. For where the union, or band of a commonwealth, is one man, there is no distraction; whereas in assemblies, those that are of different opinions, and give different counsel, are apt to fall out amongst themselves, and to cross the designs of the commonwealth for one another's sake   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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