Download or read book Representative Government and War Classic Reprint written by Charles Ross and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Representative Government and War War is the struggle for existence between races, between nations, between man and man, and between animals. Two nations urgently desirous of the same thing on which existence depends enter into com petition with each other. Compromise may follow compromise, but the end will be the same - war. War is the great crisis in the life of a nation, which decides whether that nation shall Continue to exist. It is a struggle for existence, in which one nation strikes to kill another nation. 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.

Download or read book The Degradation of Our Representative System and Its Reform Classic Reprint written by J. Francis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Degradation of Our Representative System and Its Reform Whatever may be the result of the bloody war now raging, it is presumed there is no one who does not see that it has already given such a shock to our republican institutions, that they will require great and important modifications, if not a reconstruction from their very foundation. Many changes must be made, both to give the requisite strength to the general Government, and to prevent that strength being abused; to consolidate the restored or diminished confederacy, and, at the same time, to save our local institutions, our personal liberties, from extinction; above all, to guard us, if possible, from the evils we have experienced in our system of election for National offices, especially, that of President of the United States; evils which will be greatly augmented in the inevitable consequence of the present war, - the enormous military power of the Executive. 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.

Download or read book Representative Government and War written by Charles Ross and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Voice of the People written by J. L. Stocks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Voice of the People: An Essay on Representative Democracy This essay was planned and partly written during the last year of the war in the intervals of military service in England. At that time the strain of the war, the complete suppression of democratic forms Of government, and the strange incapacity of political leaders in all countries except America to formulate a programme worth fighting for, had produced much bitterness of feeling both within and without the British army. The mind turned with some relief to the consideration Of parlia mentary institutions as they existed in this country before the war and as they might exist again after it, perhaps with some inclination to magnify their possibilities and their superiority over the existing order. The precise question here proposed for investigation was no doubt in uenced by the situation. I asked myself what this democracy, now so plainly absent, really was, and how far it was or might have been realized in the forms of government established in this country before the war. Later, after my release from military service, I had the advantage Of submitting my attempt at an answer to these questions, in the form Of lectures, to a Summer School of the Workers Educational Association at Oxford. To its criticism and encouragement the essay owes much. It seemed that a discussion which ourished so vigorously there might be not without interest to a Wider public. 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."

Download or read book A Plan to Stop the Present and Prevent Future Wars written by Robert E. Beasley and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lessons of the War with Spain written by Alfred T. Mahan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lessons of the War With Spain: And Other Articles It is, of course, vain to expect that the great majority of men should attain even an elemen tary knowledge of what constitutes the strength or weakness of a military situation; but it does not seem extravagant to hope that the individ uals, who will interest themselves thus far, may be numerous enough, and so distributed throughout a country, as to constitute rallying points for the establishment of a sound public Opinion, and thus, in critical moments, to liber ate the responsible authorities from demands which, however unreasonable, no representative government can wholly withstand. 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.

Download or read book Government and the War Classic Reprint written by Spenser Wilkinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Government and the War The reader who has followed me thus far can see for himself whether I have described the situation as it really is. I know that many people will not face it. It seems to them too awful. They would rather shut their eyes and build castles in the air labelled 'after the War.' That seems to me the unconscious hypocrisy of despair. I have faith in my country men. Nay, more, I have faith in the French and I have faith in the Italians. But it is for my own countrymen that I am writing. I am sure that they feel with me and that they want to know the worst and to do the best. All that is required is a lead. 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.

Download or read book National Governments and the World War Classic Reprint written by Frederic Austin Ogg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from National Governments and the World War The present volume is ofiered as an aid to the difiusion of this sort of knowledge and spirit. It deals mainly with com parative government and undertakes to show what the heritage and genius of the principal peoples lately engaged in the World War have meant in the shaping of contemporary political institu tions and ideas. It seeks also to describe the great changes wrought in governmental organization and procedure during the war, and to point out the major political problems that remain for settlement during the early years of peace. 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.

Download or read book More That Must Be Told Classic Reprint written by Philip Gibbs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from More That Must Be Told Looking back at the three years Of history after the Armistice - three years of blundering, moral degradation and reaction to the lowest traditions of national politics - the most tolerant Of minds examining into the causes of that evil time must formulate a grave indictment against one company Of men. Arraigned before an honest jury of public opinion they are a fairly small gang of notorious persons, politically of doubtful character and shady antecedents. They are the Leaders of Europe - the Old Gang, still for the most part in command Of the machinery of government. These men in England, France, and Italy are those who were playing the game of politics before the war, fighting for place and power, taking their turn, now in now out, according to the revolutions of the party wheels, but whether in or out, belonging to the inner circle of that system which, under. The fair name of representative government, arranges the fate of peoples without their knowledge or consent, and by artful appeals to popular passion and ignorance, by spell-words and watchwords of fine sound and empty meaning, keeps the mob obedient to their directing wills, even though it is led to the shambles with the enticing cry Of Dilly, dilly, come and be killed. 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.

Download or read book The German Revolution of 1849 Being an Account of the Final Struggle in Baden for the Maintenance of First National Representative Government Cla written by Charles W. Dahlinger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The German Revolution of 1849: Being an Account of the Final Struggle, in Baden, for the Maintenance of First National Representative Government In the year 1848, continental Europe was torn from one end to the other by a mad struggle of the people for more civil liberty. France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, all felt its violence. In Germany for a time the people were triumphant and absolute government appeared to be an institution of the past. Finally, in 1849, the whole illusion was dispelled; grim reaction again swept into power and trampled the common people into the dust, where they remained until the victorious war of 1870-1871 against France at last forced the kings and princes to form an empire with an imperial representative government. The following sketch is intended only to picture the death-struggle of the movement, which took place in Baden, and forms an incident in the history of Germany scarcely less fascinating than the oft-told tale of the great revolution in France, of which it was a mild imitation. 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.

Download or read book The War and Democracy Classic Reprint written by R. W. Seton-Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War and Democracy It seems to me that the amount of lawlessness and crime, the amount of waste and futility, the amount of war and war possibility and war danger in the world are just the measure of the present inadequacy of the world's system of collective organisations to the purpose before them. It follows from this very directly that only one thing can end war on the earth, and that is a subtle mental development, an idea, the development of the idea of the world commonweal in the collective mind. - H. G. Wells in 1908. This is a testing time for Democracy. The people of Great Britain, to whom all the world looks as the trustees, together with France and America, of the great democratic tradition, are brought face to face, for the first time, with their full ultimate responsibility as British citizens. Upon the way in which that responsibility is realised and discharged de pends the future of the democratic principle, not only in these islands, but throughout the world. 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.

Download or read book A Plan to Stop the Present and Prevent Future Wars Classic Reprint written by Robert Easley Beasley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Plan to Stop the Present and Prevent Future Wars I, Robert E. Beasley, of the Twin House Rancho, Solano County, California, issue this my Proclamation, number one, that the present war, said by some to exist in the United States, shall cease by limitation, on the 4th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1869, under penalty of my sovereign displeasure. I issue it not as the servant of Mexico, China, Louis Napoleon, or any other power, unless it may be that I am a servant of God, (of which I have serious doubts for reasons that I may some day make public), but as one of the many thousands of sovereign people of the sovereign State of California. As such I issue it. Robert E. Besaley. Plan. I now respectfully suggest for the consideration of the Governors of the several States concerned, as a means by which it may be stopped at an earlier date: That each governor issue writs of election at an early date, requiring all legal voters, under penalty of one thousand dollars, to attend the polls and vote that the war shall be vigorously prosecuted, or that it shall stop. If the prosecution of the war shall have received the greatest number of votes, then all persons so voting, and all having failed to vote, shall be organized and placed in the army, and compelled to assist in prosecuting the war. So shall they fight with courage, and each according to his desire, as to the side he may wish to fight for. It is my opinion they would fight with such a will and "vim," as to deter other nations from interfering in our domestic quarrels. We cannot fight always. 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.

Download or read book Representative Democracy written by Nadia Urbinati and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate mode of democratic decision making—and not just a pragmatic second choice when direct democracy is not possible. As Urbinati shows, the idea that representation is incompatible with democracy stems from our modern concept of sovereignty, which identifies politics with a decision maker’s direct physical presence and the immediate act of the will. She goes on to contend that a democratic theory of representation can and should go beyond these identifications. Political representation, she demonstrates, is ultimately grounded in a continuum of influence and power created by political judgment, as well as the way presence through ideas and speech links society with representative institutions. Deftly integrating the ideas of such thinkers as Rousseau, Kant, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Paine, and the Marquis de Condorcet with her own, Urbinati constructs a thought-provoking alternative vision of democracy.

Download or read book War and World Government Classic Reprint written by Frank Crane and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and World Government Rarely has any one man exerted so wide an influence upon the thinking of the people as Dr. Frank Crane. His daily editorials have been supplied, through the Associated News papers, to over thirty of the leading journals of the United States and Canada. His read ers number millions. 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.

Download or read book The War and American Democracy Classic Reprint written by Wilbur Cortez Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War and American Democracy But it is, undoubtedly, due in still larger measure to the methods of war which Germany has re-introduced into a civilization whence men had fondly hoped, before this war began, they had been forever driven out, that the conflict has deepened in intensity. Whatever parts the governments may have played, recent events and observers unite in forc ing the conviction that this is now a peoples' war. That this is largely the effect of frightfulness no disinterested person can well deny; and Germany's best friends must deplore a policy which has lost her more than a great defeat, and recruited the ranks and determination of her opponents more than a victory of the Allies. If the latent barbarism beneath the veneer of civilization has proved greater than we thought, it is no less evident that men's nerves have not suffered as much deterioration from modern conditions as was believed by those who sought through such means to overpower these opponents. And the demonstrated futility of such operations, were there no other reason for their dis continuance, portends their re-elimination from the military code. 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.

Download or read book Can We Disarm Classic Reprint written by Joseph Mccabe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Can We Disarm? Such are the arguments with which the Peace Societies and their critics appeal to rulers and to subjects. That such considerations, long familiar to all educated people, are little likely to influence the designs of rulers and statesmen, few will doubt - apart from the subscribers to those Peace Societies which have written to congratulate the Tsar on his graceful surrender to their efi'orts. Nominal autocracy still lingers amongst forms of government the representative character of certain republics and limited monarchies is open to serious question. Still, the practical agitator directs himself to the conversion of the masses. Academic bodies, sitting at Turin, and gravely impressing upon each other their academic argu ments - even quarrelling as to what measure of pacification they shall recommend, - are in small danger of influencing the course of events. 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.

Download or read book Cases on Military Government Classic Reprint written by United States and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cases on Military Government If a war be made by invasion of a foreign na tion, the President is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force. He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge without waiting for any special legislative authority. And whether the hostile party be a foreign invader, or States organized in rebellion, it is none the less a war, although the declaration of it be 'unilateral'. 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.