§. 213. This being usually brought about by such in the commonwealth, who
misuse the power they have, it is hard to consider it aright, and know at whose
door to lay it, without knowing the form of government in which it happens. Let
us suppose, then, the legislative placed in the concurrence of three distinct
persons: — First, a single hereditary person having the constant, supreme,
executive power, and with it the power of convoking and dissolving the other
two within certain periods of time. Secondly, an assembly of hereditary
nobility. Thirdly, an assembly of representatives chosen, pro tempore, by the
people. Such a form of government supposed, it is evident: