Noriu pacituoti John'a Mill'a:

The theory... of British Constitution, is, that unchecked power is always abused: and it is because the King would be a tyrant, if he could, that a House of Commons is given to control him. How absurd that to say that the same check which is required by a king, is not required by a House of Commons! Have a hundred despots ever been found to be less evil than one? ['Parliamentary Reform' [I], August 1824, CW, XXVI,p. 265.]