...arbitrarily or unjustly exercised. They anticipated in action the aphorism of John Stuart Mill, that " men do not need political rights in order that they may...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned"; for, as was truly said by Guizot, "a constitution is only a device for turning ordinary mortals into...

...arbitrarily or unjustly exercised. They anticipated in action the aphorism of John Stuart Mill, that " men do not need political rights in order that they may...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned " ; for, as was truly said by Guizot, " a constitution is only a device for turning ordinary mortals...

...course will only be taken by the exceptions. Either the whole tendency of modern social improvement has been wrong, or it ought to be carried out to the...are, and will be all their lives, nothing else than laborers in corn-fields or manufactories; but this does not render the suffrage less desirable for...

...to domestic authority, they would not the less require the protection of the suffrage to secure (hem from the abuse of that authority. Men, as well as...rights in order that they may govern, but in order that thev may not be misgoverned. The majority of the male sex are, and will be all their lives, nothing...

...If there be any difference, women require it more than men, since, being physically weaker, they are more dependent on law and society for protection....nor their claim to it less irresistible, when not likely to make a bad use of it. Nobody pretends to think that woman would make a bad use of the suffrage....

...perhaps, something like Mill's addition of a "self-protection" principle to the liberal principle: "Men, as well as women, do not need political rights...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned." For some, this is as much as can be said for the "protective" version of liberal democracy. But even...

...with the ballot for self,defense can citizens be secure. "Men, as well as women," summarized Mill, "do not need political rights in order that they may govern, but in order that they not be misgoverned.'" While government is necessary, protection is also essential. Machiavelli and...

...women's political rights, it turns out, is not equality but "self-protection." 87 Women, like men, "do not need political rights in order that they may...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned." Although Mill asserts that "no one now holds that women should be in personal servitude," he also shows...

...of the role of individuality in an egalitarian society. His espousal of the cause of female suffrage ('men as well as women do not need political rights...they may govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned'l was the proper extension of his acceptance of progressive constitutional change and of...

...popular sovereignty or the means of protecting individual liberty from actual and potential abuses. "Men, as well as women, do not need political rights...they may govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned."30 Mill's distinction between forms of self-government showed that he believed liberty...