Footnote 123: On the process of registration see Anson, Law and Custom of the Constitution, I., 134-137, and M. Caudel, L'enregistrement des électeurs en Angleterre, in Annales des Sciences Politiques, Sept., 1906.[(Back)]
Footnote 124: Government of England, I., 213. On the franchise system see Anson, Law and Custom of the Constitution, I., Chap. 4 and Lowell, op. cit., I., Chap. 9.[(Back)]
Footnote 125: Annual Register (1905), 193.[(Back)]
Footnote 126: May and Holland, Constitutional History of England, III., 48-49. It may be noted that an able royal commission, appointed in December, 1908, to study foreign electoral systems and to recommend modifications of the English system, reported in 1910 adversely to the early adoption of any form of proportional representation.[(Back)]
Footnote 127: See pp. [110-113].[(Back)]
Footnote 128: October, 1912.[(Back)]
Footnote 129: The number of plural voters is placed at 525,000; that of graduates who elect the university representatives, at 49,614.[(Back)]
Footnote 130: A timely volume is J. King and F. W. Raffety, Our Electoral System; the Demand for Reform (London, 1912).[(Back)]
Footnote 131: May and Holland, Constitutional History of England, III., 61.[(Back)]
Footnote 132: K. Schirmacher, The Modern Woman's Rights Movement, trans. by C. C. Eckhardt (New York, 1912), 58-96; B. Mason, The Story of the Woman's Suffrage Movement (London, 1911); E. S. Pankhurst, The Suffragette; the History of the Woman's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910 (London, 1911). The subject is surveyed briefly in May and Holland, Constitutional History, III., 59-66.[(Back)]