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2 BOOK V.
3 THE BOYAL GOVERNMENT OF CAUBUL.
4 CHAP. L
5 or THE KIKG.
6 most x\.siatic governments, there are no limits to the power of
7 the crowu but those of the endurance of the people ; and the
8 ]SjDg*s will is never opposed imleM by a general uuurrection. Among
9 the A%h«uii8, hoveTer,, the power of the Doomiiiee arotocracy and
10 the organiawtiop of die other tribes afiord pemuuieiit menu lor th§
11 control of the loyal autfaoiiij» and ftr the peaoeable maintenanoe of
12 the privikgea of the natiofi. Buti as thejr hanreno statute law (except
13 that of Mi^omet)» and no public leootda of the proceedings of thdf
14 goremment, it u imposrible Ihat any vegular oaastitution ahould hSftve
15 grown up among them. There are, however, some eatabllahed cus^
16 toms and opinions respecting their goremment* nHiicfal shall piOGee4
17 to state
18 The crown is hereditary in that branch of the house of Suddbeye
19 which is desbeaded from Ahmed Shauh. There does not, however
20 appear to be any rule fixed fi>r its descending to the eldest son.
21 When a King dies, it has been usual for the great Doorsunee Sirdais
22 present at the court, to meet and consider which of his sons is to suc-
23 ceed. Hiey are determined by the will of the fiitber, and by the agtf
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