[Footnote 2301: The name for the dreaded secret Royal warrant of arrest. (SR.)]
[Footnote 2302: The initiative rests with the King on one point: war cannot be decreed by the Assembly except on his formal and preliminary proposition. This exception was secured only after a violent struggle and a supreme effort by Mirabeau.]
[Footnote 2303: Speech by Lanjuinais, November 7, 1789. "We determined on the separation of the powers. Why, then, should the proposal he made to us to unite the legislative power with the executive power in the persons of the ministers?"]
[Footnote 2304: See the attendance of the Ministers before the Legislative Assembly.]
[Footnote 2305: "Any society in which the separation of the powers is not clearly defined has no constitution." (Declaration of Rights, article XVI.)--This principle is borrowed from a text by Montesquieu, also from the American Constitution. In the rest the theory of Rousseau is followed.]
[Footnote 2306: Mercure de France, an expression by Mallet du Pan.]
[Footnote 2307: Constitution of 1791, ch. II. articles 5, 6, 7.--Decree of September 25--October 6, 1791, section III. articles, 8 to 25.]
[Footnote 2308: Speeches by Barnave and Roederer in the constituent Assembly.--Speeches by Barnave and Duport in the Jacobin Club.]
[Footnote 2309: Principal texts. (Duvergier, "Collection des Lois et Decrets.")--Laws on municipal and administrative organization, December 14 and 22, 1789; August 12-20, 1790; March 12, 1791. On the municipal organization of Paris, May 21st, June 27, 1790.--Laws on the organization of the Judiciary, August 16-24, 1790; September 16-29, 1791; September 29, October 21, 1791.--Laws on military organization, September 23, October 29, 1790; January 16, 1791; July 27, 28, 1791--Laws on the financial organization, November 14-24,.1790; November 23, 1790; March 17, 1791; September 26, October 2, 1791.]
[Footnote 2310: The removal of such managerial authority has since the second World war taken place inside the United Nations and other Western public administrations and seems to be the aim of much communist trade union effort. The result has everywhere been added cost and decreased efficiency. (SR.)]
[Footnote 2311: This principle has been introduced in Western educational systems when clever self-appointed psychologists told parents and teacher alike that they could and should not punish their children but only talk and explain to them. (SR.)]