| John Stuart Mill - 1861 - 354 Seiten
...thought to take more from the simplicity of the scheme than they added to its practical advantages. The more these works are studied, the stronger, I...yet made in the theory and practice of government. In the first place, it secures a representation, in proportion to numbers, of every division of the... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1861 - 376 Seiten
...practical advantages. The more these works are studied, the stronger, I venture to predict, will he the impression of the perfect feasibility of the scheme,...yet made in the theory and practice of government. In the first place, it secures a representation, in proportion to numbers, of every division of the... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1862 - 376 Seiten
...thought to take more from the simplicity of the scheme than they added to its practical advantages. The more these works are studied, the stronger, I...yet made in the theory and practice of government. In the first place, it secures a representation, in proportion to numbers, of every division of the... | |
| Simon Sterne - 1867 - 60 Seiten
...transcendant advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plans among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." An improvement in the principles and practice of government thus endorsed by the world's greatest political... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1869 - 698 Seiten
...is studied, the stronger, I venture to predict, will be the impression of its perfect feasibility, and its transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous...yet made in the theory and practice of government." He argues that it would secure representation in proportion to members of every division of the electoral... | |
| Salem Dutcher - 1872 - 180 Seiten
...designs." Of the Preferential Vote, Mr. Mill speaks in high terms : "In my conviction, Mr. Hare's scheme is among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government. In the first place, it secures a representation, in proportion to numbers, of every division of the... | |
| Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - 1876 - 636 Seiten
...of overseers of Harvard University. Many English liberals favor it, and John Stuart Mill places it among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government, "and therefore of civilization." Mr. Thomas Hare, after whom this plan is often named, says: " In framing... | |
| Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1892 - 382 Seiten
...compared with the disadvantages of the present system." In the writings of Mr. Fawcett published in "873, we find a short explanation of Mr. Hare's scheme of...must be admitted from the fact that its main features have been embraced in the electoral law of Denmark since 1855, for the election of representatives... | |
| Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1892 - 592 Seiten
...still the most valuable single work on representative government which can be given our students, as " among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." The great features of Mr. Hare's book are its exposure of the unsuitableness of the principle of geographical... | |
| John Rogers Commons - 1896 - 316 Seiten
...1872, p. 38. 244 PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. \ vance of practical details ; " and of his plan as " among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." l Certainly no discussions have equalled these treatises of Mill and Hare in placing before the thinking... | |
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