公投的目的是绕过议会政府,人们只有在认为自己无法在议会中获得多数席位时才会要求公投。墨索里尼是公投最杰出的实践者。
(Referendums are designed to get around parliamentary government, and people only demand referendums when they think they can't get a majority in parliament. Mussolini was the most brilliant practitioner of referendums.)