Considerations on Representative Government is a book by
John Stuart Mill published in 1861. As the title suggests, it is an argument for
representative government, the ideal form of government in Mill's opinion. One of the more notable ideas Mill puts forth in the book is that the business of government representatives is not to make
legislation. Instead Mill suggests that representative bodies such as
parliaments and
senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the professionals who create and administer laws and policy. In his words:
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