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Barbara Anderson

A vote for democracy

By Barbara Anderson
December 23, 2006

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MAYBE YOU need to have been there. Maybe you had to have been an Irish Democrat in 1918, feeling powerless against the Yankee Republican ruling class, fighting for a constitutional amendment that would give citizens like you the right to get signatures and put issues on the ballot. (Full article: 819 words)

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