...— 'The ' Tho natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity : and this tendency is increased...the highest level of instruction in the community It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model [ie...

...Might we m>t have learnt that lesson also from Mr. Mill ? Let us hear him :— •«.„•'. * • franchise, their effect being to place the principal...the highest level of instruction in the community. . . . . It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which ia Constructed on this faulty...

...them : — ' The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity : and this tendency is increased...reductions and extensions of the franchise, their efiiect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest...

...constituencies. His views appear to be, to some extent, affected by the peculiar character of British districte, and the absence of great State organizations in the...reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect heing to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of...

...admits, " by all reductions of the [elective] franchise, and by all extensions of the suffrage—their effect being to place the principal power in the hands...highest level of instruction in the community." But the tendency itself is undoubtedly organic in the whole frame-work of modern society—the " collective...

...fact that " the natural tendency of Representative Government, as of modern civilization, is towards collective mediocrity : and this tendency is increased...highest level of instruction in the community."* But having admitted this much he goes on to argue that under personal representation " the minority of...

...fact that " the natural tendency of Representative Government, as of modern civilization, is towards collective mediocrity : and this tendency is increased...of classes more and more below the highest level of instruct1on in the community.''* But having admitted this much he goes on to argue that under personal...

...scepticism, Mill noted that "the tendency of representative government, as of modern civilization, is towards collective mediocrity, and this tendency is increased...by all reductions and extensions of the franchise". How much more necessary, then, that this defect of a democratic age should not be exaggerated by a...

...scepticism, Mill noted that "the tendency of representative government, as of modern civilization, is towards collective mediocrity, and this tendency is increased...by all reductions and extensions of the franchise ". How much more necessary, then, that this defect of a democratic age should not be exaggerated by...

...the unqualified. As Mill remarked, "The natural tendency of representative government, as of modem civilization, is toward collective mediocrity; and...the highest level of instruction in the community."" Critical theorists have also attempted to delineate the unwise decisions expected in elective governments....