ON

1871

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

AND

PERSONAL REPRESENTATION.

BASED IN PART UPON THOMAS HARE'S TREATISE, ENTITLED THE

ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES, PARLIAMENTARY AND

MUNICIPAL."

BY

SIMON STERNE.

"Proportional representation is to our mind as evident and almost
as important an improvement upon the majority system of represent-
ative government now in vogue, as the application of steam has been
to industrial pursuits."-Article by PREVOST-PARADOL in Journal des
Debats, Feb. 18th, 1870.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.