Considerations on Representative Government

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Cosimo, Inc., 2009. 1. 1. - 280페이지
One of the foremost figures of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century, John Stuart Mill offered up examinations of human rights, personal and societal rights and responsibilities, and the striving for individual happiness that continue to impact our philosophies, both private and political, to this day.In this 1861 book, considered his most ambitious political treatise, Mill collects his thinking on: the extent to which forms of government are a matter of choice the criterion of a good form of government the social conditions under which representative government is inapplicable the proper functions of representative bodies the "extension of suffrage" modes of voting and much more.English philosopher and politician JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) served as an administrator in the East Indian Company from 1823 to 1858, and as a member of parliament from 1865 to 1868. Among his essays on a wide range of political and social thought are Principles of Political Economy (1848), Considerations on Representative Government (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869).

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PREFACE
2
Government
15
That the Ideally Best Form of Govern
36
Under What Social Conditions Represen
56
Representative Bodies
68
Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government Is Liable
84
Of True and False Democracy Represen tation of All and Representation of the Majority Only
102
Of the Extension of the Suffrage
127
Of the Duration of Parliaments
171
Ought Pledges To Be Required from Members of Parliament?
174
Of a Second Chamber
186
Of the Executive in a Representative Government
194
Of Local Representative Bodies
212
Of Nationality as Connected with Representative Government
229
Of Federal Representative Governments
237
Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State
249

Should There Be Two Stages of Election?
147
Of the Mode of Voting
154

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John Stuart Mill, Classical economist, was born in 1806. His father was the Ricardian economist, James Mill. John Stuart Mill's writings on economics and philosophy were prodigious. His "Principles of Political Economy, With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy," published in 1848, was the leading economics textbook of the English-speaking world during the second half of the 19th century. Some of Mill's other works include "Considerations on Representative Government," "Auguste Comte and Positivism," "The Subjection of Women," and "Three Essays on Religion." John Mill died in 1873.

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