Finally, as in
democracies the people seem very nearly to do what they want, liberty has been
placed in this sort of government and the power of the people has been confused
with the liberty of the people.[1]
Montesquieu, The
Spirit of the Laws, 1748
[1]
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political
Thought, tr. and ed. by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel
Stone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) p. 155 (Part I, Book 11,
Chapter 2). The same can be said for Metro-Vancouver's failed transit plebiscite.
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