TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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]