trancher

Ils trancheraient.
I'm sure they can settle this.
Ne peut-il exister de gouvernement où ce ne seraient pas les majorités qui trancheraient du bien ou du mal, mais la conscience ? Où les majorités ne trancheraient que des questions justiciables de la règle d’opportunité ?
Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable?
Ne peut-il exister de gouvernement où ce ne seraient pas les majorités qui trancheraient du bien ou du mal, mais la conscience ? où les majorités ne trancheraient que des questions justiciables de la règle d’opportunité ?
Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?--in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable?
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