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■^I'liese forms, however futile they may have been, are remarkable ; not because they render sacred a riglit which stands in ntj need of them, but because they recall it to mind ; and also because they prove that, even on the soil most favourable to despotism, a charter which sliould give absolute power to a monarch would appear such a gross absurdity, that we knf)w not that an instance of the kind ever existed. ii2 228 HISTORY OK U 11 SSI A, Thus, the period of interregnum, of illegitimacy, wh...ich sullied the Russian history, terminated, in Mikhail Ro- manoif, by an election, as it commenced in Boris ; but with this difference, that the one could not legalize a previous usurpation, while the second, which preceded the accession of INlikhail Romanoff, was free and legitimate. But how is this ? amidst such a vast disorganization, was a mere election sufficient ? Was not the political ex- istence of Russia itself recently in doubt ? A terrific crisis, resembling those violent diseases which threaten with cer- tain destruction the most robust bodies!
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