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Considerations on Representative Government

Considerations on Representative Government

Mill, John Stuart

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1774419807
ISBN13: 9781774419809
Publisher: Binker North
Published: Jun 17 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Considerations on Representative Government is a political science book by John Stuart Mill published in 1861.


Mill argues for representative government, the ideal form of government in his opinion. One of the more notable ideas Mill puts forth in the book is that the business of government representatives is not to make legislation. Instead Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the professionals who create and administer laws and policy. In his words:

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