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Excerpt from the This work has been conceived and developed as a study of political representation; but representation can be understood only in the relationship it bears to the political system as a whole, and I found myself unavoidably committed to some consideration of the theory of the state. For this reason I have given rather more extended attention to the views of those seventeenth-century English Whig writers who influenced both English and American development, than might have been expected if the work had been more narrowly focused on representation alone.