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Representative democracy ……. means the people as a body must be able to control the general direction of government policy. (J. S. Mill). Comment.

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The statement condenses chapter 5, "Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies", of John Stuart Mill's Considerations on Representative Government (1861). There Mill defines representative government as the whole people, or a large part of them, exercising through periodically elected deputies the ultimate controlling power. The key point is that the people control government. They…

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  • Control, Not Administration
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