Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 322

While the government displays so much skill and ability, the people display scarcely any. When called upon to elect those whose province it is to determine the sphere and remuneration of governmental action, whom do they choose? The agents of the government. Thus, they confer on the executive the power of fixing the limits of its own operations and exactions. They act like the _Bourgeois Gentilhomme_, who, in place of himself deciding on the number and cut of his coats, referred the whole thing--to his tailor.

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