Author : Arnold Bennett Hall
Release : 2015-07-04
Genre : History
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Popular Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Government write by Arnold Bennett Hall. This book was released on 2015-07-04. Popular Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Popular Government: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Methods of Representative Government At a time when our institutions are being subjected to criticism and contempt, when the necessity for greater technical efficiency goes hand in hand with the increasing and restless demand for greater popular control, and when the fundamental theories of our government are menaced by a national myopia of political vision induced by the pressure of immediate need, an analysis of the tested principles of our constitutional system seems very opportune. In order to make this analysis both timely and concrete, the discussion is centered around the practical political problems that have claimed public attention in recent years. The attempt here is to inquire into the inherent nature of popular government and to determine its fundamental limitations. We are concerned only incidently with considerations of form, but primarily with the forces of human nature as they function through the forms of democracy. How must they function if they function effectively, and if popular government is to be really popular? Are there any fixed and inherent limitations upon the exercise of popular control which the architects of our political destiny dare not ignore? A consideration of these and similar questions should afford us some basis in fundamental principle for evaluating the modern tendencies in the modification of our system of representative government. In his able and practical conception of public opinion, President Lowell has given us a very valuable concept in the study of democracy of which the author has gladly and freely availed himself, and which forms the basis of approach in the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.