Proportional Representation
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Excerpt from Proportional Representation: Including Its Relations to the Initiative and Referendum W. D. Stead in the Review of Reviews says, "Demos will regard his millionaires as the cottager regards his bees." But his as others´ "Demos" is as much a myth as Bacchus or Saturn. DeTocqueville has written a book of over 500 pages on "Democracy in America," when the thing did not then, and does not now exist in America. It is of the first importance to the consideration of any of the fundamental political questions now taken up by thinking persons to ascertain what is and is not representation; how far, if at all, voters really make the laws, and how far they might do in practice what they are said to do in theory. This lies at the foundation of all intelligent effort to improve industrial and moral conditions by political processes. It is the keystone, the keynote and the key to all such reforms. I therefore propose to consider the subject in the light of facts and reason, negatively, positively and relatively; with the preliminary remark that limitations as to space preclude setting forth within the limits of a small pamphlet, a complete exposition of a subject that in the hands of other writers spreads into large volumes. Yet, as truth is always simple, the subject can be made clear in a limited space, provided the reader can divest himself sufficiently of pre-conceived notions to give it a candid consideration. There are two methods adopted by scientists and logicians to reach facts. First, the a priori process, by which the truths of mathematics can be established in advance of experience, as that twice two is four and that the sum of all the angles in a triangle must always be equal to two right angles. Secondly, the a posteriori method of deducing general laws from experiment and observation, such as that water freezes and vaporises at certain temperatures and that the earth is nearly spherical. I shall demonstrate that the current assumptions are false by both these processes. A Prioki Demonstration. It can be demonstrated, aside from any actual experience, that under representation by districts, minorities, from one-third down (the proportion growing less with the increased number of parties), can return a majority of the members in elective bodies. 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.
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