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Created on 2014-08-11 11:42:43 (#2302966), last updated 2019-09-12 (336 weeks ago)
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| Name: | Lung Tien Ning |
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Ning said, "I would not like you to feel that I have acted with disrespect to your companion's nation and your home. But I am afraid it will not do: this business of Parliament must be an excessive inconvenience."
"That," Perscitia said, much ruffled beneath her sash and medal of office, which marked her as a member of that body, "is only because you do not properly appreciate the importance of the legislature, and its necessity to the promotion of our interests."
"I am afraid I cannot allow its advantages over a more direct exercise of power," Ning said.
"You are describing Tyranny," Perscitia said grandly -- Temeraire heard the capital letter quite distinctly -- "and a moment's reflection will show you its numerous flaws: only one can be a tyrant, and therefore such a political system will rarely be just, or serve the needs of all."
"That is lamentable, to be sure," Ning said practically, "--unless one should happen to be the tyrant, whereupon it makes everything very easy."
((RP journal for Lung Tien Ning from the Temeraire series, played by Seth! Player can be reached on Plurk or via PM.))
"That," Perscitia said, much ruffled beneath her sash and medal of office, which marked her as a member of that body, "is only because you do not properly appreciate the importance of the legislature, and its necessity to the promotion of our interests."
"I am afraid I cannot allow its advantages over a more direct exercise of power," Ning said.
"You are describing Tyranny," Perscitia said grandly -- Temeraire heard the capital letter quite distinctly -- "and a moment's reflection will show you its numerous flaws: only one can be a tyrant, and therefore such a political system will rarely be just, or serve the needs of all."
"That is lamentable, to be sure," Ning said practically, "--unless one should happen to be the tyrant, whereupon it makes everything very easy."
((RP journal for Lung Tien Ning from the Temeraire series, played by Seth! Player can be reached on Plurk or via PM.))
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