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1893 Buffalo Conference on Electoral Reform

The 1893 Buffalo Conference passed declaration of principles, the first of which being:

Direct legislation and PR


by which the people shall be truly able to govern themselves, become their own legislators, judge of the constitutionality of their own law-making acts, and forever keep for the common life the self-governing power that can never be rightly delegated to representatives. Thus, only, and for the first time since our fathers established the New England town meeting, will government by, and for and of the people become a reality."

article goes on to explain how the Buffalo Conference elected a committee using STV, thus producing a committee with support among the various reformers and radicals at the conference, as well as demonstrating the efficiency of STV.

Prof. John R. Commons, Tyson and Katherine J. Musson were prominent in organizing the conference to achieve this forward progress.

from 

#9 - Address of the American Proportional Representation League. ... - Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library

Am. PR League pamphlet No. 2 1913 The Representative Council Plan of City Government by C.G. Hoag 


see also:

#19 - Leaflet. no.1,5-6 1914-1919. - Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library

Includes

PR pamphlet no. 26 PR in Municipal Elections (starts at 1/42)

Am. PR League pamphlet No. 1 Nov. 1914 "Efficiency and Democracy in City Government" (starts at 19/42)

Am. PR League Leaflet No. 6      PR The Basis of the better democracy of Ashtabula... (starts at 25/42)

Am. PR League Leaflet No. 5 The Hare System of PR Effective Voting Real Democracy ... (starts at 33/42)

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