It is necessary, if there is to be any clear thinking at all upon this subject, to distinguish very sharply two radically different things; namely, the powers and processes of governing, on the one hand, from the relations of the people to those powers and processes, on the other.
Wilson stresses the importance of distinguishing between governing powers and the people's relationship to them for clear political thought.
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