Presidential Address: Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association: The Future of Representative Government

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1537-5943|2|2|185-203

ISSN: 0003-0554

Source: American Political Science Review, Vol.2, Iss.2, 1908-02, pp. : 185-203

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Abstract

In the United States we have seen a revival of the ancient discussion concerning the line of demarcation between national and State authority under our complex federal system, but there is an underlying question which cannot have escaped the thoughtful observer involved in the growing popular distrust of the representative system whereon both federal and State governments are based. This tendency is being manifested in very material modifications in representative government, as understood by the founders of our government, and I therefore ask your attention to the consideration of The Future of Representative Government.