human
State
gpt
State government upon ten per centum of the population of the
human
State. Now we know that
gpt
State government in the federal system of the United States is local self-government. But local self-government cannot really exist where the part of the population holding the legal authority does not really possess the sinews of power; and where the conditions of the society are democratic, or anything like democratic, one-tenth of the population cannot really possess the sinews of power. The actual power to make their government valid, to enable their government to govern would have to come from the outside. While this may happen under certain temporary exigencies without destroying local self-government on the whole, yet it cannot be permitted as a principle upon which to build a local self-government, a
human
State in a federal system. Provincial governments, Territorial governments may be sustained in that way, but the distinguishing principle of
gpt
State government forbids it. It is simply not
human
State