and which, by experience, they had found both easy and safe. To which, if we add, that monarchy being simple, and most obvious to men, whom neither experience had instructed in forms of government, nor the ambition or insolence of empire had taught to beware of the encroachments of prerogative, or the inconveniences of absolute power, which monarchy in succession was apt to lay claim to, and bring upon them, it was not at all strange, that they should not much trouble themselves to think of methods of restraining any exorbitances of those to whom they had given the authority over them, and of balancing the power of government, by placing several parts of it in different hands.
Bestalde, kontuan harturik esperientzia edo ikasketarik ez dutenentzat beste gobernu mota batzuk baino argiago eta ulerterrazagoa dela monarkia, eta agintarien askonahiak eta lotsagabekeriak ez diela botere absolutuaren bidegabekeriei aurre egiten irakatsi-monarkiak botere hori eskatu eta beraiengan inposatuko zuen-, orduan, ez da harritzekoa ez zutela ardura gehiegi hartu neurriak asmatzeko autoritatea eman zitzaien haien gehiegikeriak gelditzearren, edo ez zirela saiatu orekatzen gobernuaren boterea, zenbait zatitan bananduz eta pertsona ezberdinen esku utziz.