The Essentials of Self-Government (England Wales)

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Excerpt from The Essentials of Self-Government (England Wales): A Comprehensive Survey, Designed as a Critical Introduction to the Detailed Study of the Electoral Mechanism as the Foundation of Political Power, and a Potent Instrument of Intellectual and Social Evolution, With Practical Suggestions for the Increase OfGoverning the Suffrage and the Registration of Electors.The electoral rights and privileges of citizenship should, as far as possible, be inseparably associated with its obligations, and this without distinction of sex: so that the State shall not proceed to enforce the discharge of the obligations, especially in the shape of rates and taxes, until it has conferred the rights and privileges, or furnished in each individual case a definite and legitimate reason for its refusal so to do.Second Canon:Mainly Governing the Distribution of Seats: the Selection of Candidates: the Nomination: the Payment of Members and Election Expenses and Returning Officers' Charges.The area from which the political organism may select the exponents and instruments of its legislative will must be coextensive with the mature (i.e. the adult) intellectual faculties of the organism itself, and the selective power must be distributed and uninterruptedly maintained in strict proportion to the respective development of the various constituent elements which make up its political individuality, so that the expression of its desires and aspirations may take place with the maximum of precision and freedom, and the realisation of its resolutions with the maximum of efficacy.Third Canon:Mainly Governing the Actual Contest: the Party System: Corrupt and Illegal Practices: the Arrangements for the Poll: the Act and Mode of Voting.The electoral verdict should be the superior aggregate of the largest attainable collocation of deliberate individual judgments, , not the merely mechanical consensus of the majority of the mass. For that reason there should be eliminated from the electoral tribunal to the utmost possible extent, all opportunity for the accidental predominance of the minority, and all the influences that have their origin in, or tend towards, caucus-control, habit, mystery, corruption, passion, coercion, caprice, and individual irresponsibility, as well as all the operations of mass-suggestibility.Fourth Canon:Mainly Governing Election Petitions and the Dismissal of Members.The electorate should possess not only the sole right of electing, but also the sole and uninterrupted right of dismissing, a member, subject in each case to carefully defined safeguards: so that the relation between the Government and the electorate may be such as to enable the latter to exert an instant, continuous, and irresistible influence upon the former, by way of stimulus, control, and check.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.