The relations between legislative and judicial authority give rise to comments which cannot be considered groundless....  It has been called scandalous that the Chief Justice of the High Court should have been deposed.  But, in 1839, President Johnson, of the United States, met the difficulty by making a majority of nine in the High Court, thus assuring to himself a compliant majority.

There is a mis-print in the Article in the Revue de Deux Mondes.  The date should be 1869 not 1839; and truly Dr. Kuyper has lighted upon a good example in his selection of President Johnson; the only President of the United States who has been impeached!

I know that sort of argument generally employed by people who are in the wrong and especially employed by people whom Dr. Kuyper can scarcely bring forward as models.  “All very well, but what of that little slip of yours.” ...  Dr. Kuyper might as reasonably invoke la loi de dessaisissement voted by the French Chamber last year.  Our answer to him is that the violation of the most elementary principles of justice in one country, does not justify it in another.  He proceeds: 

     “The Boer Government is said to be an oligarchy.  And yet every
     citizen has his vote—­Throughout the land there are juries....”

Really Dr. Kuyper affects too great naivete.  The Boers may have created a democracy among themselves; with regard to natives and Uitlanders they are an oligarchy.

“Every citizen has his vote”:  But Mr. Krueger’s argument for refusing the franchise to Uitlanders is that they numbered 70,000, while the Burghers were only 30,000.  Here we have a minority governing the majority; what else is an oligarchy?

“Throughout the land there are juries”; yes, but juries made up of Boers who try Uitlanders, treat them as enemies, and find that the policeman Jones acted rightly in killing Edgar.  That way of constituting a jury is a certainty of injustice to the Uitlanders, and not a guarantee of justice.

President Krueger promised to do something for the municipal organisation of Johannesburg; this is how he keeps his promise.  Each division of that town elects two members, a Burgher and an Uitlander; according to the last census, the burghers living in Johannesburg, numbered 1,039; the Uitlanders 23,503; thus 1,039 burghers had as many representatives in the municipal Corporation as the 23,503 Uitlanders.  The Mayor, who was nominated by the Government, had the right of absolute veto.

In modern law there exists a principle introduced by England, which is the true basis of representative Government:  “no representation, no taxation.”  It is the right of every citizen who contributes to the taxes to approve of them and to control the use of them.

In autocratic governments, he has no such right.  In oligarchic governments, the governing class imposes burdens upon those it governs.  This is the case in the Transvaal.