BOOK V OF LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE POWER CHAP. XXIV. OF THE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT Political authority of a national assembly-- of juries. -- Consequence from the whole. IT remains for us to consider what is the degree of authority necessary to be vested in such a modified species of national assembly as we have admitted into our system. Are they to issue their commands to the different members of the confederacy? Or is it sufficient that they should invite them to cooperate for the common advantage, and, by arguments and addresses, convince them of the reasonableness of the measures they propose? The former of these might at first be necessary. The latter would afterwards become sufficient.1 The Amphictyonic council of Greece possessed no authority but that which flowed from its personal character. In proportion as the spirit of party was extirpated, as the restlessness of p...