Books with title Considerations on Representative Government 1869

Considerations on Representative Government is a 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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John contends for representative government, the idyllic form of governance in his point of view. Among the most noted beliefs John writes in the text is that the industry of political delegates is not to form legislation. In its place, John proposes that delegates including the parliaments and senates are greatly appropriate to be seats of public argument on the different ideas alleged by the people and to serve as watchdogs of the authorities who make and implement rules and courses of action. Their duty is to denote the necessities, to be an instrument for known requests, and a site of antagonistic debate for all views in relation to public concerns, both inordinate and minor; and, in consort with this, to inspect by critique, and lastly by renouncing their advocacy, those elevated public officials who actually run the public industry, or who choose those by whom it is handled. John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, political economist and civic servant. Among the very prominent thinkers in the times of liberalism, he interposed largely to social philosophy, political theory and governmental economy. Named as "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", John’s notion of freedom validated the liberty of a specific person in contradiction to limitless state and societal restraint. John was an advocate of utilitarianism, an ethical philosophy refined by his precursor Jeremy Bentham, and interposed knowingly to the philosophy of the scientific technique. He joined the Liberal Party, and was also the first Member of Parliament to support the rights of women. John Stuart Mill was born in Rodney Street in the Pentonville stretch of London, the first son of the Scottish philosopher, historian and economist James Mill, and Harriet Burrow. John Stuart was taught by his father, with the counsel and aid of Jeremy Bentham and Francis Place. He was provided with a strongly arduous rearing,