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70:12.1 The great [[struggle]] in the [[evolution]] of [[government]] has concerned the [[concentration]] of [[power]]. The [[universe]] [[administrators]] have [[learned]] from [[experience]] that the [[evolutionary]] peoples on the [[inhabited worlds]] are best regulated by the [[representative]] [[type]] of civil [[government]] when there is [[maintained]] proper [[balance]] of power between the well-[[co-ordinated]] [[executive]], [[legislative]], and [[judicial]] branches.

70:12.1 The great [[struggle]] in the [[evolution]] of [[government]] has concerned the [[concentration]] of [[power]]. The [[universe]] [[administrators]] have [[learned]] from [[experience]] that the [[evolutionary]] peoples on the [[inhabited worlds]] are best regulated by the [[representative]] [[type]] of civil [[government]] when there is [[maintained]] proper [[balance]] of power between the well-[[co-ordinated]] [[executive]], [[legislative]], and [[judicial]] branches.

70:12.2 While [[primitive]] [[authority]] was based on [[strength]], [[physical]] power, the [[ideal]] [[government]] is the [[representative]] [[system]] wherein [[leadership]] is based on [[ability]], but in the days of [[barbarism]] there was entirely too much war to permit [[representative]] [[government]] to [[function]] [[effectively]]. In the long [[struggle]] between division of [[authority]] and [[unity]] of command, the [[dictator]] won. The early and diffuse [[powers]] of the [[primitive]] [[council]] of elders were [[gradually]] [[concentrated]] in the [[person]] of the [[absolute]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch monarch]. After the arrival of real [[kings]] the groups of [[elders]] persisted as quasi-[[legislative]]-[[judicial]] advisory bodies; later on, [[legislatures]] of [[co-ordinate]] [[status]] made their [[appearance]], and [[eventually]] supreme courts of [[adjudication]] were [[established]] separate from the [[legislatures]].

70:12.2 While [[primitive]] [[authority]] was based on [[strength]], [[physical]] power, the [[ideal]] [[government]] is the [[representative]] [[system]] wherein [[leadership]] is based on [[ability]], but in the days of [[barbarism]] there was entirely too much war to permit [[representative]] [[government]] to [[function]] [[effectively]]. In the long [[struggle]] between division of [[authority]] and [[unity]] of command, the [[dictator]] won. The early and diffuse [[powers]] of the [[primitive]] [[council]] of elders were [[gradually]] [[concentrated]] in the [[person]] of the [[absolute]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch monarch]. After the arrival of real [[kings]] the groups of [[elders]] persisted as quasi-[[legislative]]-[[judicial]] advisory bodies; later on, [[legislatures]] of [[co-ordinate]] [[status]] made their [[appearance]], and [[eventually]] supreme courts of [[adjudication]] were [[established]] separate from the [[legislatures]].

70:12.3 The [[king]] was the executor of the [[mores]], the [[original]] or unwritten law. Later he enforced the [[legislative]] enactments, the crystallization of [[public]] [[opinion]]. A popular assembly as an [[expression]] of [[public]] [[opinion]], though slow in appearing, marked a great [[social]] advance.

70:12.3 The [[king]] was the executor of the [[mores]], the [[original]] or unwritten law. Later he enforced the [[legislative]] enactments, the crystallization of [[public]] [[opinion]]. A popular assembly as an [[expression]] of [[public]] [[opinion]], though slow in appearing, marked a great [[social]] advance.