“ The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government." From the FAREWELL ADDRESS.

THE STORY

OF

· AMERICAN DEMOCRACY:

POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL

BY

WILLIS MASON WEST

Sometime Professor of History in the University of Minne-
sota; Author of The American Prople, American
History and Government, The War and

the New Age, Modern Progress

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