ABSTRACT
The State is the result of very reckoning. The election of deputies simply means counting the supporters of certain opinions in the country. The true source of respect for the law lies in its clearly expressing the natural inter-relation of things; the individual, especially in a democracy, will respect it only in the degree to which he recognizes it as having this quality. The election of deputies simply means counting the supporters of certain opinions in the country. As long as every district, commune, area or province had its own peculiar features, its traditional morals, its customs and its special interests, the councils set up to administer them were essential cogwheels in political life. A political assembly resting on such a basis can only give an imperfect picture of a society's structure or of the relation between the various social forces.
