Excerpt from A Treatise on the American Law of Elections The work is entitled the american law OF elections. The authorities cited are chiefly American authorities. Upon this subject we are, from the very necessities of the case, building up an American common law. It is not asserted that the English authorities are of no value upon this branch of the law. On the contrary they have been freely cited whenever deemed applicable and useful. It was deemed proper, however, to keep steadily in view the fact that the genius of our institutions, the character of our political sys tem, and the principles upon which the right of suffrage in this country is founded, all difi'er so radically from those of England as to diminish very greatly the value of English precedents in election cases; and the effort has been to show that our own tribunals have by a long course of judicial decisions, settled the law of this country, as it relates to the questions treated, upon a firm and lasting basis. The thanks of the author are due to Fred P. Barnett, Esq., for valuable assistance in the arrangement of the matter for this edition, and in editing the same, as well as in the preparation of the table of contents, table of cases, and index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.