Excerpt from Proportional Representation The ordinary mode of voting fails, therefore, in the essential object of securing to the majority their fair in fluence. Of course, if the constituencies were sufficiently numerous, then by the doctrine of probabilities these ine qualities might neutralise one another but this would only occur if we had many thousand, instead of a few hundred constituencies. The system of single seats has many great recommendations, but it would not secure this particular object. 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.