Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Initiative Referendum and Recall This volume represents a substantial contribution to the further careful and thoughtful discussion of a widely considered plan of reform. Professor Munro brings to his task as editor not only a comprehensive knowledge of the subject treated - direct legislation as it is popularly known - and a deep sympathy with the movement to correct the undoubtedly and undisputed evil results of representative government, but, what is of prime importance, a sound perspective and with out local prejudice. 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.