Excerpt from Socialism and Government, Vol. 2 A critical examination of the various schemes proposed for increasing the accuracy Of the work of representative governments, and bringing them into more intimate touch with the national will, has resulted so far not only in the rejection of the proposals themselves, but in a dis agreement with the principles from which they issue. Behind most of these proposals lies a fallacious expectation that if votes or voting were differently manipulated, some difference would be shown in the quality of legislation. An electorate cajoled, deceived, bribed under one system of election, will be cajoled, deceived, bribed under any system; an electorate which has not the intelligence to know its own mind or to form an ideal for itself will not find the salvation of intelligence under the Referendum, Proportional Representation. 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.