Primitive and representative government

945. All governments may be reduced to two classes, the primitive, or those where the people are governed by the will or laws of one chief independently of the people ; and the representative, or those where people are governed principally by laws formed by a congregated assemblage of their own body. The former are calculated for those early ages, when man, in a stage of infancy, is governed by a king, as children are ruled by their parents ; the latter, for more enlightened times, when a people, like children arrived at manhood, are capable of thinking for themselves and acting in concert.