The Voice of the People

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Excerpt from The Voice of the People: An Essay on Representative DemocracyThis 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 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.