Unpopular Government in the United States
by Albert Martin Kales
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About this eBook
- Author
- Kales, Albert Martin, 1875-1922
- Title
- Unpopular government in the United States
- Original Publication
- United States: University of Chicago,1914,copyright 1915.
- Credits
- deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- JK: Political science: Political inst. and pub. Admin.: United States
- Subject
- United States -- Politics and government
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 68928
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68928
- Release Date
- September 6, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.UNPOPULAR GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 7.INTRODUCTION
- 8.PART I THE RISE OF THE POLITOCRATS — CHAPTER I UNPOPULAR GOVERNMENT—DEFINED—HOW FORMERLY MAINTAINED—PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO AVOID IT — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.CHAPTER II UNPOPULAR GOVERNMENT—HOW ESTABLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES IN SPITE OF THE PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT IT — Section 1 Introductory — Section 2 The Burden upon the Electorate—The Inverted Pyramid of Governmental and Electoral Districts—The Offices to Be Filled and the Number of Electors in Each District — Section 3 The Resulting Political Ignorance of the Voter and His Consequent Disfranchisement — Section 4 The Power of the Electorate Passes to Those Who Take Advantage of Its Political Ignorance to Direct It How to Vote — Section 5 The Power of Government Passes into the Hands of Those Who Are Able to Direct the Majority of the Politically Ignorant How to Vote. They Constitute an Extra-legal but None the Less Real Government — Section 6 The Extra-legal Government Uses Its Power Selfishly to Maintain Itself and to Benefit Those Who Have Organized and Supported It — Section 7 The Extra-legal Government Is Able to Maintain Itself in the Face of Popular Disapproval — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.PART II THE WAR ON POLITOCRACY — CHAPTER III DISSIPATION OF POLITICAL IGNORANCE BY SELF-TAUGHT POLITICAL EDUCATION
- 11.CHAPTER IV THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT AND CIVIL-SERVICE ACTS
- 12.CHAPTER V ALTRUISTIC EFFORTS TO ENLIGHTEN THE VOTER — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.CHAPTER VI ABOLITION OF THE PARTY CIRCLE AND PARTY COLUMN
- 14.CHAPTER VII THE PRIMARIES
- 15.CHAPTER VIII THE INITIATIVE AND THE REFERENDUM — FOOTNOTES:
- 16.CHAPTER IX THE RECALL — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.CHAPTER X INDEPENDENT MOVEMENTS AND THE NEW PARTY
- 18.CHAPTER XI THE SECURITY OF EXTRA-LEGAL UNPOPULAR GOVERNMENT BY POLITOCRATS IN THE UNITED STATES
- 19.CHAPTER XII THE MENACE TO UNPOPULAR GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMISSION FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR SMALLER CITIES — FOOTNOTES:
- 20.CHAPTER XIII THE PRINCIPLE OF THE COMMISSION FORM OF GOVERNMENT APPLIED TO THE LARGER CITIES — FOOTNOTES:
- 21.CHAPTER XIV THE PRINCIPLES OF THE COMMISSION FORM OF GOVERNMENT APPLIED TO THE STATE — FOOTNOTES:
- 22.CHAPTER XV CONTEMPORARY PLANS LOOKING TOWARD THE UNION OF THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE POWERS OF STATE GOVERNMENTS — FOOTNOTES:
- 23.CHAPTER XVI THE SECOND-CHAMBER PROBLEM [21] — FOOTNOTES:
- 24.CHAPTER XVII METHODS OF SELECTING AND RETIRING JUDGES — FOOTNOTES:
- 25.CHAPTER XVIII CHANGES IN THE PLAN OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- 26.CHAPTER XIX CONCLUSION — Transcriber’s Notes
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