Excerpt from Government by the People, the Laws and Customs Regulating, the Election System and the Formation and Control of Political Parties in the United States IN the following pages an attempt has been made to describe how government by the people is carried on in the United States so far as each voter is entitled to participate personally in it. The will of the majority finds expression through channels of custom which only in part are defined by law. 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.