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Centralization and Popular Control, From: The Growth and Decadence of Constitutional Government, by J. Allen Smith, 1930
The attitude of the well-to-do classes toward local self-government was profoundly influenced by the extension of the suffrage…the removal of property qualifications tended to divest the old ruling class of its control in local affairs.
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Excerpt from “The Confessions of a Reformer,” written in 1925 by Richard C. Howe
My text-book government had to be discarded; my worship of the Constitution scrapped. The state that I had believed in with religious fervor was gone. Like the anthropomorphic God of my childhood, it had never existed. But crashing beliefs cleared the air. I saw that democracy had not failed; it had never been tried.