This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXV CONCLUSION From the preceding pages it will have been gathered that universal suffrage is the goal, both in theory and in practice, of government to-day. The powers which still tend to restrain the franchise are ever loosening their grip, and the war has dealt almost irresistible blows ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXV CONCLUSION From the preceding pages it will have been gathered that universal suffrage is the goal, both in theory and in practice, of government to-day. The powers which still tend to restrain the franchise are ever loosening their grip, and the war has dealt almost irresistible blows against the chief citadels of autocracy. It is both futile and foolish to strive to retard the progress of democracy in elections, for there is no tenable argument wherefore any part of society, with the exception of criminals and the mentally deficient, should be entirely segregated from political life, and, further than that, the classes hitherto excluded are well aware of that fact. There are, no doubt, valid reasons for depriving certain inhabitants of the state of the right to vote. No one questions the exclusion of minors and the insane. Certain states seek to prevent clerical or military domination by disfranchising members of the clergy, or of the army on active service. It was once an accepted theorem that paupers and bankrupts might not vote, because they contributed nothing to the financial strength of the state, but were rather liabilities. But the socialist criticism of this distinction has at last found practical application in the Soviet Republic of Russia, which allows all the proletariat to vote and disfranchises only the bourgeoisie. With the progress of education the justification for a literacy test is vanishing, as it is recognized that disfranchisement for that reason often means the perpetuation of illiteracy, as is the case in Hungary. The unmistakable tendency of the present age towards complete universal suffrage is evidenced by the statement of that principle in the constitutions of most of the new states founded...
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