...and this is one of the practical dangers to which the futurity of representative government will be exposed. But it is equally true, though only of late...but by minds trained to the task through long and labourious study, as the business of making laws. This is a sufficient reason, were there no other,...

...be useful law, than to construct that same law that it may accomplish the design of the lawgiver.'2 'There is hardly any kind of intellectual work which so much needs done, not only by experienced and exercised minds, but by minds trained to the task through long and...

...Representative Government.1* Mill had based his theory of representative government on the view that There is hardly any kind of intellectual work which so much needs to be done by experienced and exercised minds ... as the business of legislation. This is sufficient reason, were...

...Representative Government. Central to Mill's theory of representative government was the view that '[tjhere is hardly any kind of intellectual work which so much needs to be done by experienced and exercised minds ... as the business of legislation. This is sufficient reason, were...

...twining, at least as difficult and laborious as that needed in other professions? Mill was of opinion that 'there is hardly any kind of intellectual work, which...long and laborious study, as the business of making laws;12 and Mr. Joseph Cowen is of much the same opinion, as are indeed all writers of eminence on...

...President, "a pastime for a summer afternoon." John Stuart Mill, a legislator as well as an economist, says "there is hardly any kind of intellectual work which so much needs to be done * * * by minds trained to the task through long and laborious study as the business of making laws,"...