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- ↑ Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism. pp. 157–159.
- ↑ "Progressive democracy". New York, Macmillan. 1914.
- ↑ "Government by Proxy Now" The New York Times, June 30, 1912.
- ↑ James D. Barnett, "Reorganization of State Government in Oregon" in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (May, 1915), pp. 287-293
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