When she dies her reservations die, and the Board's shadow-powers become real powers, without the change of any important By-law, and the Board sits in her place as absolute and irresponsible a sovereign as she was.
It consists of but five persons, a much more manageable Cardinalate than the Roman Pope's.

I think it will elect its Pope from its own body, and that it will fill its own vacancies.

An elective Papacy is a safe and wise system, and a long-liver..