THE PEOPLE'S LAW

OR

POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN

LAW-MAKING

FROM ANCIENT FOLK-MOOT TO MODERN
REFERENDUM

A STUDY IN THE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACY
AND DIRECT LEGISLATION

BY

CHARLES SUMNER LOBINGIER, PH.D., LL.M.

JUDGE OF THE COURT OF FIRST instance, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS; COMMISSIONER TO REvise and edIT
PHILIPPINE CODES; MEMBER NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM

LAWS; MEMBER OF The bar of THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
SOMETIME MEmber nebrasKA SUPREME Court (commission); professor of law
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARD

PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1909

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