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The intervention of an extrinsic, impartial, and capable authority--if such can be found--will undoubtedly restrain the covetousness as well as the factiousness of a choosing assembly.
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Walter Bagehot
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He argues for the necessity of an impartial authority to curb the excesses of a politically motivated assembly.
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