Show The Duty of Opposition The author believed then as he believes ieves now t that in all representative goy rnmenta a constitutional opposition is one of the safeguards of liberty and that it is a legislatorss duty to challenge freely the conduct of the administration in regard to the use of the means committed com-mitted to it by the people Because the time of war is the time of danger it does not follow that criticism by the opposition at such a period may not be consistent with patriotism England was saved from disgrace in the Crimean war by a I defiant opposition which was led by the London TimeR A government may be I magnified by opposing the weakness of its i administration It may be saved and j strengthened by a vigorous criticism upon an imbecile party or corrupt policy i otherwise the very function of govern i ment might be palsied by the incapacity i or corruption of the functionary 5 8 j Cox in September Overland |