Government by All the People; Or: The Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall as Instruments of DemocracyMacmillan, 1912 - 324 pages |
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... candidates and measures of the highest import to the state . There is no longer any territorial limit to the action of a democracy . There is no longer any population limit . There is no longer any need of a slave - class to give 6 ...
... candidates and measures of the highest import to the state . There is no longer any territorial limit to the action of a democracy . There is no longer any population limit . There is no longer any need of a slave - class to give 6 ...
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... candidate for coun- cillor in an English city , one elector proposes , another seconds and eight others indorse . Obviously , popular initiative in this case is easily workable . Under a recent commission government act of one of our ...
... candidate for coun- cillor in an English city , one elector proposes , another seconds and eight others indorse . Obviously , popular initiative in this case is easily workable . Under a recent commission government act of one of our ...
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... candidates than on measures . Accordingly , it may happen that a large affirmative majority of those voting on the particular question will still be ineffective because it is not a majority of the total vote cast at the election ...
... candidates than on measures . Accordingly , it may happen that a large affirmative majority of those voting on the particular question will still be ineffective because it is not a majority of the total vote cast at the election ...
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... candidates for office are presented . It is often urged in favor of the Initiative that it leads to the self- disfranchisement of the unfit . It is notorious that a varying but generally considerable percentage of those who vote on ...
... candidates for office are presented . It is often urged in favor of the Initiative that it leads to the self- disfranchisement of the unfit . It is notorious that a varying but generally considerable percentage of those who vote on ...
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... candidates for aldermen or councilmen are nominated by the local branches of the national political parties and without due reference to their fitness for the duties of their offices or for the representative char- acter of their ...
... candidates for aldermen or councilmen are nominated by the local branches of the national political parties and without due reference to their fitness for the duties of their offices or for the representative char- acter of their ...
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Page 221 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 318 - ... and that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. Within ten days from the date of filing such petition the city clerk shall examine and from the voters...
Page 54 - That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
Page 317 - Any initiative or referendum petition may be presented in sections, but each section shall contain a. full and correct copy of the title, and text of the proposed measure.
Page 52 - people" who exercise the power are not always the same people with those over whom it is exercised; and the "self-government" spoken of is not the government of each by himself, but of each by all the rest. The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; the people...
Page 316 - ... be submitted to the electors of the state for their approval or rejection, the secretary of state shall submit to the electors of the state for their approval or rejection such...
Page 70 - If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed of the rich, who are united by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar.
Page 315 - ... to the people for approval or rejection at the next ensuing general election. The legislature may reject any measure so proposed by initiative petition and propose a different...
Page 136 - ... no measure creating or abolishing any office or changing the salary, term or duties of any officer, or granting any franchise or special privilege, or creating any vested right or interest, shall be construed to be an urgency measure.
Page 51 - The notion that the people have no need to limit their power over themselves, might seem axiomatic when popular government was a thing only dreamed about, or read of as having existed at some distant period of the past.