There are some changes, too, which ought not to be made without a specific appeal to the people on that particular issue.

To make them as part of the programme, as one plank in the platform of a party dominant for the moment, is not to execute but to evade the real will of the nation.

We know by experience how the vote of a popular representative assembly may represent the opinion of "a bare majority of a bare majority;" conceivably anything over one-eighth of the nation.

A committee is elected by some eager partisans supposed to represent a party.

That party perhaps represents a bare majority of the constituency.