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 of a republic and some of the elements of a democracy. The unwritten constitution, the existence of the royal family, even though some-what muzzled, the House of Lords, and the limitation on the reviewing of legislation by the courts, are all elements of autocracy. The House of Commons is a republican branch. The mercurial method of changing the cabinet in haste, on the impulse of the moment, at the behest of the mob spirit, is of the essence of democracy.

France is a democracy with a mixed government containing some republican elements and some of the elements of an autocracy.

Almost all of the autocracies and democracies of the world have mixed governments; that is to say, they have modified the form to include elements of one or both of the two other forms.

The first republic the world had known was the republic of the United States, which, until we began modifying it, was a true republic.

We should return at once, with all of the humility and penitence of the prodigal son, to a strict and literal adherence to the republic, the golden mean between autocracy and democracy, and encourage the people of each of the other countries of the world to go forward from the form of government that they now have to a republic.