About the book: year / "There was a time when parliamentarism seemed to be a complete solution to all the painful contradictions of state life. It was seen as a true reconciliation of monarchy and democracy, an ideal of a political system unknown to Aristotle and created by the new world. Western European states, including the smallest and most uncultured ones, began vying to establish parliaments... But time passed, and with each decade the internal inconsistency of majority rule was revealed more and more clearly. The positive principle of quantity turned out to be untenable in the mystical business of popular government. In recent years, the shortcomings of parliamentarism have become so obvious that they are no longer hidden.…»