The national State must work untiringly to set all government, especially the highest, that is the political leadership, free from the principle of control by majorities—i.e., the multitude—so as to secure the undisputed authority of the individual in its stead.
The best form of State and Constitution is that which with natural sureness of hand raises the best brains of the community to a position of leadership and predominant influence.
There must be no majority making decisions, but merely a body of responsible persons, and the word “Council” will revert to its ancient meaning. Every man shall have councillors at his side, but the decision shall be made by the one Man.
The national State does not suffer that men whose education and occupation has not given them special knowledge shall be invited to advise or judge on sub¬ jects of a specialized nature, such as economics. The State will therefore subdivide its representative body into political committees including a committee repre¬ senting professions and trades. In order to obtain advantageous co-operation between the two, there will be over them a permanent select Senate. But neither Senate nor Chamber will have power to make decisions ; they are appointed to work and not to make decisions.
Individual members may advise, but never decide. That is the exclusive prerogative of the responsible president for the time being.
i8o MY STRUGGLE As regards the possibility of carrying out our know¬ ledge in practice, I may remind my readers that the parliamentary principle of decision by majorities has not always governed the human race ; on the contrary, it only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.
In any case, let no one imagine that purely theoretic measures from above will produce such a change, since logically it cannot stop at the