Author : Society for Political Education
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483041929
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Book Synopsis Electoral Reform With the Massachusetts Ballot Reform Act and New York (Saxton) Bill (Classic Reprint) by : Society for Political Education
Download or read book Electoral Reform With the Massachusetts Ballot Reform Act and New York (Saxton) Bill (Classic Reprint) written by Society for Political Education and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electoral Reform With the Massachusetts Ballot Reform Act and New York (Saxton) Bill Seventy years ago, Jeremy Bentham drafted his famous Rad ical Reform Bill, intended to correct the evils and abuses of British Parliamentary government. Comprehensive and philo sophical in its provisions, and leading as it did to widespread discussion and agitation, the bill may be fairly regarded as a most influential source of modern political reform. John Stuart Mill, the first political thinker of the generation which succeeded Bentham, acknowledged himself to be no other than his critic and expositor. Among the reforms which Bentham strongly urged, and for which his bill provided, was a secret ballot. Such a ballot was necessary, he declared, if external influences were to be excluded from a voter's expression of his will at the polls. Nor was he oblivious to the advantages whereby secret voting makes one vice overset another he saw that untrustworthiness to do the thing for which a bribe is paid must always besus pected to accompany the willingness to accept bribes. Since Bentham's day the circumstances of American political life have undergone so complete a transformation as to present problems entirely new. Concurrently, so rapid has been politi cal progress elsewhere, that to-day we may examine with profit the safeguards which surround the franchise in other lands. 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.
