Author: Frederick W. Dallinger

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Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781331305460

Excerpt from Nominations for Elective Office in the United States My attention was first called to the subject of nominations while pursuing a course of study in American institutions, as an undergraduate student at Harvard University. In connection with that study I found, to my surprise, that although certain phases of the present nominating system have, from time to time, been touched upon in magazine articles and elsewhere, no systematic attempt has ever been made to consider in all its bearings this very important part of our governmental machinery. It is for the purpose of supplying this deficiency that the following pages have been written. In them I have endeavored to give some account of the origin and development of our nominating system, to describe it as it exists to-day, and then to point out the evils that have arisen under it, and the remedies that have been suggested for their removal. It has been my object throughout to look at the question from a strictly non-partisan standpoint, and to treat it entirely as a scientific study. 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.