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" The pure idea of democracy, according to its definition, is the government of the whole people by the whole people, equally represented. Democracy as commonly conceived and hitherto practised, is the government of the whole people by a mere majority of... "
Proportional Representation: Or, The Representation of Successive Majorities ... - Page 127
by Charles Rollin Buckalew - 1872 - 300 pages
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Calcutta Review, Volume 37

1862 - 394 pages
...the * whole people, equally represented. Democracy, as commonly ' conceived and hitherto practised, is the government of the whole ' people by a mere majority of the people, exclusively repre* sented. The former is synonymous with the equality of all ' citizens ; the latter, strangely...
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Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - 1861 - 376 pages
...people by the whole people, equally represented. Democracy as commonly conceived and hitherto practised, is the government of the whole people by a mere majority...confounded with it, is a government of privilege, in favour of the numerical majority, who alone possess practically any voice in the State. This is the...
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Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - 1861 - 354 pages
...by the whole people, equally represented. ' Democracy as commonly conceived and hitherto practised, is the government of the whole people by a mere majority...confounded with it, is a government / of privilege, in favour of the numerical majority, who alone possess practically any voice in the State. This is the...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1863 - 972 pages
...people, by the whole people equally represented. Democracy, as commonly conceived and hitherto practised, is the government of the whole people by a mere majority...confounded with it, is a government of privilege, in favour of the numerical majority, who alone possess practically any voice in the state In a really...
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Minority Or Proportional Representation: Its Nature, Aims, History ...

Salem Dutcher - 1872 - 180 pages
...people by the whole people, equally represented. Democracy, as commonly received and hitherto practised, is the government of the whole people by a mere majority of the whole people, exclusively represented. The former is synonymous with the equality of all citizens ;...
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Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - 1875 - 382 pages
...mocracy, as commonly conceived and hitherto prac- \ ticed, is the government of the whole people by aj mere majority of the people exclusively represented....government of privilege in favor of the numerical ma-1 jority, who alone possess practically any voice in the\ state. This is the inevitable consequence...
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A Handbook to Political Questions of the Day: With the Arguments on Either Side

Sydney Buxton - 1884 - 240 pages
...government of the whole People, by the whole people equally represented;" whereas the present system is " the government of the whole people by a mere majority of 'the people exclusively represented." 2. — (a) That it is an advantage to the country to taka into its councils every interest, class,...
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A handbook to political questions of the day

Sydney Charles Buxton (1st earl.) - 1885 - 282 pages
...government of the whole People, hy the whole people equally represented ; " whereas the present system is " the government of the whole people by a mere majority of the people exclusively represented." 2. — (») That it is an advantage to the country to take into its councils every interest, class,...
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Essays on English Literature

Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer - 1891 - 322 pages
...people by the whole people equally represented. Democracy as commonly conceived and hitherto practised is the government of the whole people by a mere majority...former is synonymous with the equality of all citizens; in the second (strangely confounded with it) is a government of privilege in favour of the numerical...
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An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of Parliament

Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute, Toronto - 1892 - 188 pages
...people by the whole people, equally represented. Democracy as commonly conceived and hitherto practised, is the government of the whole people by a mere majority...confounded with it, is a government of privilege, in favour of the numerical majority, who alone possess practically any voice in the State. This is the...
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