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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: member of the Democratic party, although there are thousands of Democrats in the State. To secure a representation for the minority numerous devices have been proposed. Two of these have been practically applied. The first is known as the limited vote plan. When a group of three officers is to be chosen in a district, as, for example, three commissioners in a county, if no person is allowed to vote for more than two candidates, one of the three successful candidates may be a member of the political party which is in a minority. This plan has been adopted in Pennsylvania in the election of county officers. The second device for representing the minority involves the plan of cumulative voting. Under this plan each voter may cast as many votes as there are candidates for office, and may distribute his votes or give them all to one candidate. By concentrating their votes upon one candidate a minority can generally secure representation. Cumulative voting has been practiced for many years in Illinois. The People and their Representatives. In a representative democracy government on election-day passes out of the hands of the people for a time into the hands of their chosen agents. In the long run these agents will be like the people they represent. If the voters want good government their representatives will give it to them. As William Penn said: Governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad; for if it be ill they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil to their turn. ... I know some say let us have good laws and no matter for the men that execute them; but let them consider that though good laws do well, good men do better, for good laws may want...
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