CHAPTER VIII.
BOER OLIGARCHY.
Dr.Kuyper, who has juggled with these facts, enumerates with a sort of amazed frankness the reproaches addressed to the Transvaal Government: The relations between legislative and judicial authority give rise to comments which cannot be considered groundless....

It has been called scandalous that the Chief Justice of the High Court should have been deposed.

But, in 1839, President Johnson, of the United States, met the difficulty by making a majority of nine in the High Court, thus assuring to himself a compliant majority.
There is a mis-print in the Article in the _Revue de Deux Mondes_.

The date should be 1869 not 1839; and truly Dr.Kuyper has lighted upon a good example in his selection of President Johnson; the only President of the United States who has been impeached! I know that sort of argument generally employed by people who are in the wrong and especially employed by people whom Dr.Kuyper can scarcely bring forward as models.

"All very well, but what of that little slip of yours." ...