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Quotation from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
“Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government”
Considerations on Representative Government, Ch. V (Project Gutenberg text)
Mill separates the assembly's duty of control from the work of administration and drafting laws.
Citation: "Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government" — John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, Ch. V (Project Gutenberg text). (id mill-considerations-on-representative-government-q3)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
