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The Protection of Majorities: Or, Considerations Relating to Electoral Reform; With Other Papers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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It would not be difficult to draught an act of legislation that Should embody the suggestions of the following pages. But it is not time to attempt this; and it would require more than one mind to do it in the best way. What is here said is submitted, not as a system, but as suggestions in aid of a system. The first step is to concentrate public opinion upon the urgent necessity of reform, and then to agree upon the direction in which it may be practicable. Whether a philosopher, put under bonds to construct an unassailable Utopia, would adopt our theory of government, is a question which in this present year of grace we shall do well to put aside. For my own part, I accept the American principle of government by majorities with all cordiality, confident that we may constantly eliminate its evils by improving its methods.
The other papers in this volume were con tributed to the periodical already mentioned, and may be set down as padding, if the reader can find no better use for them.
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