ive having the initiative and the legislature a veto. (The attorney general and the governor contend for the existence of an "administrative" function in which the governor not only enjoys the initiative, but can be restrained by nothing less than an act of the legislature).
What is necessary is, to distinguish the powers involved, usually described as the "first word" and the "last word." Let us consider a classically simple society, such as the Five Nations of the Iroquois, that proceeds by consensus. Then it may appear that the chief, or president, is indeed primus inter pares, first among equals; he has a veto and every other member equally has
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