ABSTRACT
Before going on to consider the forms of organisation or constitutional machinery which may be devised to meet necessities of democracy two preliminary warnings should be borne in mind. Different states vary in the degree to which conscious purpose has been present in the construction of their machinery of government. But even when this purpose has most clearly been there in the early stages of a particular constitution, the machinery has been constantly modified, not always consciously, in the actual working in order to meet immediate practical needs. The authors are now in a position to get a picture of the machinery by which a democracy can attempt to secure the combination, in due proportions, of expert efficiency and popular opinion in the work of government.
