BALLOT

voting was in vogue both in Greece and in Rome, but not to nearly the same extent as in modem states. It was first used in the United Kingdom for voting in Parliament, not for elections, but, of course, that is inconsistent with the fundamental idea of popular representative government. Bentham and Grote urged its adoption for election in connection with the Reform Bill for 1832, and it was carried in the Commons in 1851, against the opposition of Lord Ru ell and the Liberal Government of the time but it did not actually become legal for parliamentary; election till 1872, though it had been used for school board elections for two years before that. It was the practice in New England from the very first, and gradually spread to all U.S.A.