The main portion of the work remains unchanged; in addition to it are several appendices, embracing articles written by the author since 1896, and dealing with the system of direct primary election, the initiative and referendum—“measures designed to make popular government in very reality government by the people, through enabling the people on the one hand to propose and on the other to veto legislation.” (Outlook.)
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