“ Local feelings can not exist without somebody who feels them, nor local interests without somebody interested in them. ”
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government (1861). copy citation
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
|---|---|
| Source | Considerations on Representative Government |
| Topic | interest feelings |
| Date | 1861 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5669/5669-h/5669-h.htm |
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“Parliament must represent towns and counties, not human beings. But no one seeks to annihilate towns and counties. Towns and counties, it may be presumed, are represented when the human beings who inhabit them are represented. Local feelings can not exist without somebody who feels them, nor local interests without somebody interested in them. If the human beings whose feelings and interests these are have their proper share of representation, these feelings and interests are represented in common with all other feelings and interests of those persons.”
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