Papers and Addresses on Primary Reform Read at the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Political Science Association Held at Ann Arbor, February 9 and 10, 1905 |
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Page 131 - No special privileges or immunities shall ever be granted which may not be altered, revoked or repealed by the Legislature; nor shall any citizen, or class of citizens, be granted privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not be granted to all citizens.
Page 28 - WHEREAS, In nominating candidates for the several county offices, it clearly is or ought to be, the object to arrive as nearly as possible at the wishes of the majority, or at least a plurality of the Republican voters; and WHEREAS, The present system of nominating by delegates, who virtually represent territory rather than votes, and who almost necessarily are wholly unacquainted with the wishes and feelings of their constituents in regard to various candidates for office, is undemocratic, because...
Page 131 - The people shall have the right to freely assemble together to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives, and to petition the Legislature for redress of grievances.
Page 123 - ... electors, political parties, or organizations of electors without conventions, at elections to be known and designated as primary elections ; also to determine the tests and conditions upon which electors, political parties, or organizations of electors may participate in any such primary election. It shall also be lawful for the legislature to prescribe that any such primary election shall be mandatory and obligatory.
Page 123 - New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. The following States require registration: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia, Wyoming.
Page 79 - If for an office representing less than a congressional district in area, or a county office, by at least three per cent. of the party vote in at least one-sixth of the election precincts...
Page 126 - A law which will destroy such party organization, or permit it fraudulently to pass into the hands of its political enemies, cannot be upheld. The procedure of political parties may be regulated, and the wisdom of the legislature may well be exercised in devising methods to check political corruption and fraud, but the legislature itself, under the guise of regulation, cannot be permitted to throw open the doors to these very abuses.
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Page 137 - ... rights in the management of the parties to which they may be allied. But an alliance cannot be made by one person alone. It requires the action of several, whose rights are equal. .No one can ally himself with others solely by his volition. Therefore I do not see that an elector has any greater right to join a party, unless on the conditions that the party prescribes, than he has to insist upon entering a partnership, on contributing his quota of capital, against the wish of the parties then...
Page 30 - ... at the last preceding presidential election, making allowance for voters who had come of age since that election, and providing for the reduction of the vote pro rata among all candidates in case of excess. To the credit of the party it has not once been found necessary to enforce this amendment. The practice of "ringing in" Democratic voters or voters of other parties, stopped from the day it was made unlawful.