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A treatise on democratic theory written in the early 20th century. It argues that the omnicompetent, sovereign citizen imagined by democratic dogma does not exist, and that public opinion is intermittent, external to real decision-making, and best used to align force behind workable rules rather than to govern directly. The work reframes elections as mobilizations that substitute for civil war and proposes practical limits and