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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ons on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... the work of an absolute ruler, deriving his power either from religion or military prowess—very of ten from foreign arms. Again, uncivilized races, ... ...rch would have to succumb, and conform to the conditions of constitutional royalty, or give place to some one who would. The despotism, being thus chi... ...e; the right not being abandoned, but laid up in the same armoury with the royal veto, the right of withholding the supplies, and other an cient inst... ...dmitted at once to a plurality of votes. The same rule might be applied to graduates of universities; and even to those who bring satisfactory certifi... ...iary conditions of the suffrage, it might be a wise provision to allow all graduates of universities, all persons who have passed creditably through t...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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