Shows the historical reasons for the present method, and its effect on the senate and senators, and on state and local government, with a detailed review of the arguments for and against direct election.
"A timely book.... Prof. Haynes is qualified for a historical and analytical treatise on the subject of the Senate."—N.Y. Evening Sun.
"Well worth reading, and unique because it is devoted wholly to the election of senators and to the deliberations of the Senate."—Boston Transcript.
"Able and dispassionate, and ought to be widely read."—New York Commercial.
"Of considerable popular as well as historical interest."—Dial.
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