| PAGE |
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| [Introduction] | [1] |
| PART I |
| The Rise of the Politocrats |
| CHAPTER I |
| [Unpopular Government—Defined—How Formerly Maintained—Precautions Taken to Avoid It] | [7] |
| CHAPTER II |
| [Unpopular Government—How Established in the United States in Spite of the Precautions to Prevent It] | [21] |
| [Sec. 1. Introductory] | [21] |
| [Sec. 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] | [26] |
| [Sec. 3. The Resulting Political Ignorance of the Voter and His Consequent Disfranchisement] | [39] |
| [Sec. 4. The Power of the Electorate Passes to Those Who Take Advantage of Its Ignorance to Direct It How to Vote] | [48] |
| [Sec. 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] | [61] |
| [Sec. 6. The Extra-legal Government Uses Its Power Selfishly to Maintain Itself and to Benefit Those Who Have Organized and Supported It] | [67] |
| [Sec. 7. The Extra-legal Government Is Able to Maintain Itself in the Face of Popular Disapproval] | [73] |
| PART II |
| The War on Politocracy |
| CHAPTER III |
| [Dissipation of Political Ignorance by Self-taught Political Education] | [91] |
| CHAPTER IV |
| [The Australian Ballot and Civil-Service Acts] | [95] |
| CHAPTER V |
| [Altruistic Efforts to Enlighten the Voter] | [99] |
| CHAPTER VI |
| [Abolition of the Party Circle and Party Column] | [104] |
| CHAPTER VII |
| [The Primaries] | [107] |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| [The Initiative and the Referendum] | [118] |
| CHAPTER IX |
| [The Recall] | [122] |
| CHAPTER X |
| [Independent Movements and the New Party] | [128] |
| CHAPTER XI |
| [The Security of Extra-legal Unpopular Government by Politocrats in the United States] | [133] |
| CHAPTER XII |
| [The Menace to Unpopular Government of the Commission Form of Government for Smaller Cities] | [139] |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| [The Principles of the Commission Form of Government Applied to the Larger Cities] | [162] |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| [The Principles of the Commission Form of Government Applied to the State] | [166] |
| CHAPTER XV |
| [Contemporary Plans Looking toward the Union of the Executive and Legislative Powers of State Governments] | [181] |
| CHAPTER XVI |
| [The Second-Chamber Problem] | [193] |
| CHAPTER XVII |
| [Methods of Selecting and Retiring Judges] | [225] |
| CHAPTER XVIII |
| [Changes in the Plan of the Federal Government] | [252] |
| CHAPTER XIX |
| [Conclusion] | [262] |