SEARCHING FOR THE IDEALLY BEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT – JOHN STUART MILL’S IDEAS
Keywords:
governance, representative system, government, parliament, individual, liberty, liberalismAbstract
Criticism of the government, institutions, state and social order, along with a search for the better form of government, represents the challenge for every intellectual. Person, whose name, with no doubt, left a significant mark in the development of the perfect form of government, was a British philosopher, economist and a politician, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). On the universal values, which are in the heart of the liberalism, such as freedom and right to choose, Mill was trying to create a state and its institutions. As the best solution, for the realization of these ideas, Mill suggested a representative government, a concept which he described in his work „Considerations on Representative Government”, 1861. By analyzing various options he provided solid conclusions for the implementation of the representative government concept. Issues, such as right to vote, government institutions, local government and possibilities of representative government in federal and colonial states, have been particularly elaborated.
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