As ever a great share Brenda and as Joseph de Maistre offered a little earlier...
"All these constitutions, considered in themselves and in their avowed purpose, are but vain attempts; for it is an essential axiom as certain as a mathematical one, that every nation has the government it deserves; thus, everything we can do for a nation before we better it means nothing and has no effect, or only negative ones; but if we look on these constitutions as political mesures able to appease, to lead, to please, to entertain, to deceive even (for often we must) the imagination of peoples, they deserve all sorts of praise."
As ever a great share Brenda and as Joseph de Maistre offered a little earlier...
"All these constitutions, considered in themselves and in their avowed purpose, are but vain attempts; for it is an essential axiom as certain as a mathematical one, that every nation has the government it deserves; thus, everything we can do for a nation before we better it means nothing and has no effect, or only negative ones; but if we look on these constitutions as political mesures able to appease, to lead, to please, to entertain, to deceive even (for often we must) the imagination of peoples, they deserve all sorts of praise."