Cover Page -- A Government by the People -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Building a Government by the People -- 1 From the Revolution to the Populists: The Antimonopoly Tradition in American Politics -- 2 The Emergence of an Issue: Popular Sovereignty and the Rise of the Initiative and Referendum in the 1890s -- 3 Republic or Democracy?: Direct Democracy and American Constitutionalism, 1890-1920 -- 4 The Keystone in the Arch of Popular Government: Direct Democracy in the American West, 1898-1912 -- 5 The Nigger Issue is Sure to be Raised: Direct Democracy in the South and North, 1908-1918 -- 6 The Trinity of Democracy: Direct Democracy, Antimonopoly, and the Progressive Movement -- 7 Direct Democracy in Action: The United States up to 1940 -- 8 Inventing Modern Politics: Ballot Propositions, Election Campaigns, and Political Consultants in California, 1920-1940 -- Conclusion: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.