A Manual of the Principles of Government As Set Forth By the Authorities of ...

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A Manual of the Principles of Government As Set Forth By the Authorities of ...
Hugh Seymour Tremenheere
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Yet even this change would he difficult 184 THE PBINCIFLES OP GOVEBNMENT. ptm.
to introduce^ and would perhaps be tinpalatable in its first working.^' (Ibid., p, 4.)* Mr. Jobn Stuart Mill, in 1861, expressed his approval of the same idea in his Considerations on Bepresentatiye Government, p. 138. ^^Lord John Bussell, in one of his reform bills, introduced a pro- vision that certain constituencies should return three members, and that in these each elector should be allowed to vote only for two.
... Thus a minority equal to or exceeding a third would be able to return one member.'* And in pp. 131 — 148 he gives his reasons for that approvaL *' The dangers that beset a representative democracy are," he says, **two; 1st, a low grade of intelligence in the representative body, and 2nd, class legislation by the nimierical majority. . . By our present representative system the electors who are on a dif- ferent side from the local majority are unrepresented.
• . . This virtual blotting out of the minority is no necessary Or natural consequence of freedom, although until recently it was thought to be so by all the friends of freedom.


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