When the public adopts special measures to see to it that the conflict is minimized and that the representative function overrides the private one, political institutions are termed representative.
This statement emphasizes the importance of minimizing conflicts between public and private interests in political institutions.
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That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.
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