"...the authority of the state lies with the particular form under which
people order themselves under government... this means that people can alter
the particular form of government. The vehicles of change might be through
referendum or electing a particular group of representatives into power."
Only if the state in question is democratic. Dictatoriships can change hands
without any notion of support from the population, but the population itself
can't change the dictatoriship without recourse to mass movements, either
peaceful or violent, or on the rare ocassion when a dictator suddenly
decides he's in the wrong.
Likewise, imperialist rule wasn't changed for the most part by democracy,
but by revolution or, in the later years, by decree.
But of course, I might have misunderstood Phil's judgements.
Simon
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