Considerations on Representative Government
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| Author | John Stuart Mill |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Parker, Son and Bourn |
| Publication date | 1861 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Pages | viii, 340 pp. |
Considerations on Representative Government is a book by John Stuart Mill published in 1861.[1][2]
Summary
[edit]Mill argues that representative government is the ideal form and that the function of legislatures is less so to enact legislation than to host public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to oversee those who prepare and administer laws and public policy:[3]
Their part is to indicate wants, to be an organ for popular demands, and a place of adverse discussion for all opinions relating to public matters, both great and small; and, along with this, to check by criticism, and eventually by withdrawing their support, those high public officers who really conduct the public business, or who appoint those by whom it is conducted.
References
[edit]- ↑ See Mill, John Stuart (1861). Considerations on Representative Government (1 ed.). London: Parker, Son, & Bourn. Retrieved 20 June 2014. via Google Books.
- ↑ See Mill, John Stuart (1873). Considerations on Representative Government (1 ed.). New York: Henry Holt & Company. Retrieved 20 June 2014. via archive.org.
- ↑ John Stuart Mill (1861), "Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies", Considerations on Representative Government, London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, pp. 86–107 at 106, OCLC 3751806.
External links
[edit]- Complete text of the book on Project Gutenberg
Considerations on Representative Government public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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