The subjective side — namely, that this particular individual, out of the several individuals there necessarily and indeterminately are (since the objective element here does not lie in genius, as it does, for example, in art), among whom preference is not something absolutely determinable, is chosen and appointed to a given office and authorized to conduct the business of the public — this connection of the individual with the office, as two sides that are always, in themselves, contingent in relation to each other, pertains to the power of the crown, as the decisive and sovereign power of the state.