Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" IT HAS been seen that the dangers incident to a representative democracy are of two kinds: danger of a low grade of intelligence in the representative body, and in the popular opinion which controls it; and danger of class legislation on the part of the... "
Proportional Representation: Or, The Representation of Successive Majorities ... - Page 124
by Charles Rollin Buckalew - 1872 - 300 pages
Full view - About this book

Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - 1861 - 354 pages
...representative democracy are of two kinds : danger I of a low grade of intelligence in the representative I body, and in the popular opinion which controls it...numerical majority, these being all composed of the ,same class^jKWe have next to consider, how far it is possible so to organize the democracy, as, without...
Full view - About this book

Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - 1861 - 376 pages
...CHAPTER VII. OF TRUE AND FALSE DEMOCRACY; REPRESENTATION OP ALL, AND REPRESENTATION OF THE MAJORITY ONLY. IT has been seen, that the dangers incident to a representative...a low grade of intelligence in the representative l>ody, and in the popular opinion which controls it ; and danger of class legislation on the part of...
Full view - About this book

Ideas in Conflict: Liberty and Communism

United States. Directorate for Armed Forces Information and Education - 1962 - 184 pages
...defense of the rights of political minorities in Considerations on Representative Government (1861). It has been seen that the dangers incident to a representative...have next to consider how far it is possible so to organise the democracy as, without interfering materially with the characteristic benefits of democratic...
Full view - About this book

The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States

Michael J. Lacey, Mary O. Furner - 1993 - 460 pages
...threatened society with "class legislation on the part of the numerical majority"; it also threatened "a low grade of intelligence in the representative...body, and in the popular opinion which controls it," especially given the shameful state of public education in Britain in I860." 5 To Mill, therefore,...
Limited preview - About this book

John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments

John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 444 pages
...remained convinced that it provided the best guards against the two greatest dangers of democracy: "danger of a low grade of intelligence in the representative body" and "danger of class legislation on the part of the numerical majority.'"2 This numerical majority was...
Limited preview - About this book

Considerations of a Representative Gover

John Stuart Mill - 2006 - 414 pages
...Chapter 7 Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only. IT HAS been seen that the dangers incident to a representative...have next to consider how far it is possible so to organise the democracy as, without interfering materially with the characteristic benefits of democratic...
Limited preview - About this book

Reforming Liberalism: J.S. Mill's Use of Ancient, Religious, Liberal, and ...

Robert Devigne - 2008 - 319 pages
...representative government, which are rooted in its popular or democratic character. As Mill argues, "It has been seen that the dangers incident to a representative...and in the popular opinion which controls it; and dangers of class legislation on the part of the numerical majority, these all being composed of the...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF