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In this context, however, we do desire to point nu

t that the time has arrived, or, at any rate, is approaching very rapidly, when we ought to make our Constitution safe for Democracy. The way to do that is to make the Poll of the People one of our national institutions. In Switzerland, where the system of a popular veto exists, the project for a Capital Levy is about to be put to the electors as a whole. Here, as we have no Referendum, it is quite .possible• that owing to Parliamentary man7 oeuvres a minority might get hold of the legislative machine and force upon the nation a measure to which the majority were, in fact, strongly opposed.

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