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Title: Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum

Author: James W. Sullivan

Release Date: February 11, 2006 [EBook #17751]

Language: English

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DIRECT LEGISLATION

BY

THE CITIZENSHIP

THROUGH

THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM

BY

J.W. SULLIVAN

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CONTENTS:

AS TO THIS BOOK i.

THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM IN SWITZERLAND 5

THE PUBLIC STEWARDSHIP OF SWITZERLAND 25

THE COMMON WEALTH OF SWITZERLAND 47

DIRECT LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES 72

THE WAY OPEN TO PEACEFUL REVOLUTION 95

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[_Copyright, 1892, by J.W. Sullivan._]

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NEW YORK
TRUE NATIONALIST PUBLISHING COMPANY
1893

AS TO THIS BOOK.

This is the second in a series of sociological works, each a small
volume, I have in course of publication. The first, "A Concept of
Political Justice," gave in outline the major positions which seem to me
logically to accord in practical life with the political principle of
equal freedom. In the present work, certain of the positions taken in
the first are amplified. In each of the volumes to come, which will be
issued as I find time to complete them, similar amplification in the
case of other positions will be made. Naturally, the order of
publication of the proposed works may be influenced by the general trend
in the discussion of public questions.

The small-book plan I have adopted for several reasons. One is, that the
writer who embodies his thought on any large subject in a single weighty
volume commonly finds difficulty in selling the work or having it read;
the price alone restricts its market, and the volume, by its ver