Considerations on Representative Government

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Good Press, Nov 19, 2019 - Fiction - 279 pages
"Considerations on Representative Government" is a book by John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, political economist, and Member of Parliament. The book was first published in 1861. In his book, 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 instead of being legislative bodies.
 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface
Chapter ITo What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice
Chapter IIThe Criterion of a Good Form of Government
Considerations on Representative
Chapter IIIThat the ideally best Form of Government is Representative Government
Chapter IVUnder what Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable
Chapter VOf the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies
Chapter VIOf the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable
Chapter IXShould there be Two Stages of Election?
Chapter XOf the Mode of Voting
Chapter XIOf the Duration of Parliaments
Chapter XIIOught Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament?
Chapter XIIIOf a Second Chamber
Chapter XIVOf the Executive in a Representative Government
Chapter XVOf Local Representative Bodies
Chapter XVIOf Nationality as connected with Representative Government

Chapter VIIOf True and False Democracy Representation of All and Representation of the Majority only
Chapter VIIIOf the Extension of the Suffrage
Chapter XVIIOf Federal Representative Governments
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