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6. Extent to which the Initiative and the Referendum are found together in your state.

7. The Recall in your state. If this device has not been adopted in your state, find out whether or not its adoption is being agitated.

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8. Development of Direct Legislation in the United States. (Munro, _The Initiative, Referendum and Recall_, chapter iv.)

9. Representative versus Direct Legislation. (Munro, _The Initiative, Referendum and Recall_, chapters vii and viii.)

10. The Initiative and Referendum in Oregon. (Kaye, _Readings in Civil Government_, pages 295-303; Munro, _The Initiative, Referendum and Recall_, chapters ix and x.)

11. The Initiative in Switzerland. (_Annals_, vol. xliii, pages 110- 145.)

12. The Referendum in Switzerland. (_Annals_, vol. xliii, pages 110- 145; Lowell, _Public Opinion and Popular Government_, chapter xii.)

13. Development of the Recall. (Munro, _The Initiative, Referendum and Recall_, chapter xii.)

14. The Recall in Los Angeles. (Munro, _The Initiative, Referendum and Recall_, chapter xiv.)

15. The Recall in Oregon. (Munro, _The Initiative, Referendum and Recall_, chapter xi.)

16. The Recall in Seattle. (Munro, _The Initiative, Referendum and Recall_, chapter xv.)

17. The Recall in Switzerland. (_Annals_, vol. xliii, pages 110-145.)

18. The Judicial Recall. (_Annals_, vol. xliii, part iii.)

19. Judicial decisions relating to the Initiative, Referendum and Recall. (Beard and Schultz, _Doc.u.ments on the State-wide Initiative, Referendum and Recall_, chapters x.x.xi-x.x.xvi.)

FOR CLa.s.sROOM DISCUSSION

20. Should the Initiative and Referendum be applied to National legislation?

21. Do the Initiative and Referendum increase the burden upon the voter?

22. The effect of the Initiative and Referendum upon the character of the state legislature.

23. Should the Recall be applied to judges?

24. Merits and defects of such forms of direct popular control as exist in your state.

25. Future development of direct popular control in the United States.

CHAPTER x.x.xVIII

PUBLIC OPINION

478. THE NATURE OF PUBLIC OPINION.--One of the most powerful influences in any community is that intangible something which we call Public Opinion. Though everyone is familiar with it, the term Public Opinion is difficult to define. Public Opinion is intimately connected with the opinion of the individual, and yet is something more than a mere total of individual opinions.