Small percentage which decides elections

Proportional representation neither expedient nor just

Different forms proposed

Bismarck on Prussian and parliamentary government

Prussian constitution extended to the empire

Functions of the chancellor .

Effects upon the empire

Parliament gaining ground

Struggle for power

Executive power in Switzerland

Referendum and initiative

Popular election of executive power unknown in Europe

Two questions at the root of popular government

Universal suffrage not based on right, but expediency

Right of private property on same basis

English government in the eighteenth century

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English Reform of 1832 as much feared as later ones now are

Discussion of charges against it

Hope of improvement by reform of legislatures

Conviction of impending change.

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Colonial experience of Portugal

Colonial experience of Spain

CHAPTER XXIX

THE LESSON OF COLONIZATION

Outbreak of maritime enterprise in the sixteenth century

Difference in national results

Relation of modern history of England to her colonies

Settlements in America

Conquests in India

Difference of colonial history not caused by difference of race

Colonial problems confronting the United States

Not an imitation of England

Professor Freeman Snow in opposition

Objections by him and A. Lawrence Lowell considered
Testimony of Hon. Thomas B. Reed

CHAPTER XXXI

EXECUTIVE RESPONSIBILITY (Continued)

Objections of principle to proposed reform.

Dr. Snow against concentration of power

Mr. Dicey and Mr. Carlyle

Leaders, good or bad, a necessity.

Difference between English and American systems

Mr. Lowell as to the power of the President

Mr. Lowell as to our Constitution

Mr. Bryce on changes of Constitution.

Changes needed of procedure and not of Constitution

Admission of Cabinet to Congress first step to reform

Obstacles to be encountered.

Policy of United States Senate report would be impossible with

Effect of proposed changes on the United States Senate

Effect upon the voters in the States

Reform of executive power must begin in the States

Governors Long and Russell

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Congress in five months accomplished nothing
Sought escape from failure in foreign war
President McKinley upon Cuba, December, 1897
The Maine goes to Havana

Did the people of the United States approve of the war?
President McKinley not elected on that question

Congress does not represent the people

Nor do the newspapers.

Mill and De Tocqueville on coming democracy

Mean term to be sought for .

Contending principles are concentration and diffusion of power 529

Best instrument a single popularly elected head

With legislature controlling it and controlled by popular will

Absence of personality has caused boss rule

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Attitude of parties

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