Toward Democracy, Or the Revival of an Old Idea: Direct Legislation the Next Step in Democracy (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 036516884X
- ISBN-13
- 9780365168843
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-03-21
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- D. W. Buchanan
Description
Excerpt from Toward Democracy, or the Revival of an Old Idea: Direct Legislation the Next Step in Democracy Primitive man in the rudest stage of human existence, lived the solitary, individual life, without government of any form. He roamed about through forest and fen in search of food, de fending himself from the wild animals, or from his equally savage brother man with such weapons as nature afi'orded him - the stick and the stone. This is not a fanciful picture. In the natives of Australia, we have in modern times an example of man, in a rude stage of existence, living without any form of government. As the centuries rolled by the people began to come together in communities. This gathering together we may say was the beginning of civilization. When this took place the need of government of some kind was felt. Thus we have the development of the communal or tribal systems of government. Under the tribal form of government we can imagine the people met together and passed such laws as they thought acces sary for the well-being of the commun ity. In modern times we have had examples of such primitive systems of government among various aboriginal peeples. Chiefs or head men were ap pointed to see to the carrying out of the laws. This was in effect pure demo cracy. This was rule by the people. It had this advantage over our modern system, namely; that the people had exactly such laws as they wanted, and they did not have any laws that they did not want. 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.
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