The history of the democratic doctrine furnishes a striking example... Born for the purpose of standing as a bulwark against Power, it ends by providing Power with the finest soil it has ever had in which to spread itself over the social field.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth (1949)

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