...exceeded by their ignorance of legal terms and formulas. According to Mr. Mill, the proper function of a representative assembly is to watch and control...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office...

...representative assemblies with a classic justification of their basic role or 'proper office' which is: to watch and control the government: to throw...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office,...

...John Stuart Mill pronounced for Parliament in a Westminster democracy (Day and Klein 1987, p. 13) was: to watch and control the government; to throw the...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office....

...dismiss the elite "experts" who ran the government if they failed to please or appease the people: Instead of the function of governing, for which it...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office...

...justification of all of them which any one considers questionable: to censure them if found condemnahle. and, if the men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office...

...press that would police the capitalist system" (Curran 1978, 56). 54. Mill wrote in Representative Government: "Instead of the function of governing,...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office,...

...distinctiveness of representative assembly does not rest on the fact that it decides instead of the people. The "proper office of a representative assembly is...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office."86...

...of publicity on its acts; to compel a full exposition and justification of all of them which anyone considers questionable; to censure them if found condemnable,...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office,...

...administrative decisions, select ministers (or civil servants), or even legislate in a substantive sense. Instead of the function of governing, for which it...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a sense which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office,...

...unavoidable, drawbacks which now accompany it in the form of ignorant and ill-considered legislation. Instead of the function of governing, for which it...men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from office,...