They are offered, not as a definite plan of local political organization, but as the illustration of a principle.

The principle is that both power and responsibility in affairs of local government should be peculiarly concentrated.

It cannot be concentrated without some simplification of machinery and without giving either the legislature or the executive a dominant authority.

In the foregoing plan the executive has been made dominant, because as a matter of fact recent political experience has conclusively proved that the executives, elected by the whole constituency, are much more representative of public opinion than are the delegates of petty districts.

One hundred district agents represent only one hundred districts and not the whole state, or the state in so far as it is whole.