...appointed to them. PROPER FUNCTIONS OF CHAPTEE V. J0 > OF THE PROPER FUNCTIONS OP REPRESENTATIVE BODIES. TN treating of representative government, it is above...elected by themselves, the ultimate controlling power ,-jailiich, in every constitution, must reside somewhere.) pThis ultimate power they must possess in...

...accordance with the will of the body of the people, shown either by approval or by acquiescence. The essence of representative government is, " that the whole people, or some numerous portion of them," [sh:ill and do] "exercise, through deputies periodically elected by themselves " [in due form and under...

...race," and to be prepared to treat with " the human races." Mr. Bird also quotes Stuart Mill, who says, "The meaning of representative government is that...elected by themselves, the ultimate controlling power." The question is quite alive, and it will be interesting to mark what comes of it. Strange, or perhaps...

...too considerable for the ordinary citizen to have any chance of being appointed to them, CHAPTER V OF THE PROPER FUNCTIONS OF REPRESENTATIVE BODIES IN...possess in all its completeness. They must be masters, wheneve1 they please, of all the operations of government. There is no need that the constitutional...

...difference lay between representative government and constitutional autocracy. As Mill so well says : "the meaning of representative government is, that the whole people, or some portion of them, exercise through deputies periodically elected by themselves the ultimate controlling...

...utilitarian position in what he calls representative government, by conferring upon it absolute power : " the whole people, or some numerous portion of them,...controlling power which in every constitution must reside somewhere.1 Here Mill apparently capitulates to democracy, but he does not intend to do so. He, like...

...was offered, perhaps, by John Stuart Mill, in his essay on "Representative Government." Mill wrote: The meaning of representative government is, that...which, in every constitution, must reside somewhere . . . A place where every interest and shade of opinion in the country can have its cause even passionately...

...ambivalent on this matter, thought that the representative should act as an agent of those he represents. The meaning of representative government is that the...controlling power, which, in every constitution, must reside somewhere.6 It is clear from an examination of their works that Burke's and Mill's differing views...

...ambivalent on this matter, thought that the representative should act as an agent of those he represents. The meaning of representative government is that the...controlling power, which, in every constitution, must reside somewhere.7 It is clear from an examination of their works that Burke's and Mill's differing views...

...Stuart Mill in his classic, Consideration on Representative Government. It is a government wherein The whole people or some numerous portion of them...this ultimate power, they must possess in all its completeness.2 In simpler terms, parliamentary democracy stands for a form of government in which the...