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  The General Election of January 1910, and the Bearing of the Results on some Problems of Representation


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id: 14459
title: Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government A New Electoral System
author: Ashworth, H. P. C.
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  people, sinking all minor differences, formed one united party; and Professor Brown regards party government as a necessary evil, resulting signed by all candidates for the party support at Federal elections. that 120,000 electors vote on party lines in any State. to elect the candidates most in general favour when one party only is The great majority of electors will vote on party lines, because every vote given to a candidate of the opposing party tells 7. The candidates of each party having the highest number of votes to be 4. Each elector to vote for half the number of candidates that there are method we have proposed will induce a people to vote on true party lines second place, each elector be allowed to vote for several candidates elector was to place all the candidates of his party in order of of each party voted separately for its own candidates; and even then it


id: 21006
title: The Governments of Europe
author: Ogg, Frederic Austin
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  houses of parliament, the courts of law, and the local administrative was a time when the crown possessed inherent law-making power and 1832--the year of the first great Reform Act--the House of Commons in the House of Commons, may vote; persons employed as election way of appeal, over the courts of common law in England, the chamber party for the time in the ascendancy govern the nation, by reason of known as administrative law, i.e., the body of rules governing the a council consisting of members elected for three years, women being constitutions[403] and elective legislative chambers. Constitution of the Year VIII: Organs of Government.*--Of national electoral laws enacted since the establishment of constitutional The States-General: Organization and Powers.*--The constitution the number of members of the House of Representatives is elected a Government, the constitutional powers of the crown had become chamber, whose members were to be elected for a term of two years by


id: 17751
title: Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum
author: Sullivan, J. W. (James William)
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  "State and Federal Government of Switzerland." By John Martin Vincent, publications presented by the Swiss Federal Council to the university citizens empower legislators and executive officers to make the law and cantonal and federal rights, in local affairs the commune governs proposed laws, name officers, and discuss affairs of a public nature. Usually, the proposal of a measure of cantonal law by popular initiative cantonal vote--within thirty days after the publication of the proposed questions of taxation, public finance, executive acts, state employment, interested observer of Swiss politics for many years, writes: "A people In no canton in Switzerland is there more than one legislative body: in to the federal executive council, a public man may regard his office as Nearly every commune in Switzerland has public lands. wage-workers, a majority in a direct vote, should demand in all public progress in Switzerland under direct legislation would form an


id: 9630
title: Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election
author: Humphreys, John H.
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  single-member constituencies nor the majority method of election can be all other parties.[8] Similarly in New South Wales the supporters of Mr. Reid''s government, who secured a majority of the seats at the election nine members, each elector giving one vote apiece to candidates up to Reform party had obtained a majority of 39,653 votes at the polls.] electors voting at the first ballot are at once declared elected; the as the single transferable vote, in basing representation upon electors example already given, an elector who desired to vote for Mr. Chamberlain would place on the ballot paper the figure 1 against his elector as recorded on the ballot paper by transferring the vote to the election." With this method the elector in recording his vote for any candidate with the highest number of votes should be declared elected; 5. After the transfer of the surplus votes of an elected candidate, any


id: 11689
title: Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
author: Miller, Alice Duer
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  woman."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Webb of North Carolina_.) Home, you know, is woman''s place. Before the dawn come women, girls and boys, ("The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make her less 4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to. 9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick to An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New Forty-one of those forty-three had also voted against the woman suffrage The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is sending out they are opposed to woman suffrage because they fear it might take women Many Men to Any Woman "Women, subject yourselves to men." Women think they''re brave, you say? (A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: "No married woman


id: 11634
title: Human Nature in Politics Third Edition
author: Wallas, Graham
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  Political acts and impulses are the result of the contact between human human nature has changed very little, but political environment has problems in politics result from the relation between the conscious use of the half-conscious processes by which men form their political facts of human nature is likely to result in error. capital, the organised political passions of working men who have passed In politics man has to make like things as well as to learn their The party is, in fact, the most effective political entity in the modern political institutions to the actual facts of human nature. political and economic thought--that men always act on a reasoned the political opinions of most men are the result, not of reasoning for the purposes of political study consists of the facts of man''s emotional and intellectual facts of man''s nature as may lead men to


id: 9097
title: Robert''s Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies
author: Robert, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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  in the following cases: (a) the Previous Question applies to the motion put to vote the questions before the assembly, in their order of voted on, the main question is again open to debate and amendments. case he names the members of the committee and no vote is taken An Amendment to Rules of Order, By-Laws or a Constitution shall require has the floor, or while the assembly is voting on the motion to Adjourn, motion as amended, it is not in order to reconsider the vote on the The only motions in order are to amend and adopt, and that the committee whole, is for the assembly to vote that the debate in committee shall member, should in such case call the meeting to order, and a chairman adjourned meeting of this assembly." This motion can be amended [§ 56] an assembly has adopted no Rules of Order, then a majority vote is


id: 51578
author: Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred
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  Women''s Suffrage Movement THE PROGRESS OF THE WOMEN''S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. Unionist Women''s Suffrage Association at their Annual Meeting on society exists to promote, the militants are injuring our country and injured, and the cause of women''s suffrage, in whose name these things But for a long time the great mass of people doubt very important to draw active converts from the large neutral influence of the active supporters help, but a large part of their Of course the militants are also reducing some active supporters of the Cambridge Suffrage Society held she believes in the early eighties. legislation industrial matters affecting certain classes of women the number of people one knows who are now supporters, and even active obvious that in certain ways the interests of women and of men are not in 1884 would serve as speeches at a women''s suffrage meeting. societies for promoting women''s suffrage and their members from the

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  The Progress of the Women''s Suffrage Movement Presidential Address to the Cambridge Branch of the C. & U. W. F. A. at the Annual Meeting on May 23rd, 1913


