The proper duty of a representative assembly in regard to matters of administration is not to decide them by its own vote, but to take care that the persons who have to decide them shall be the proper persons.
John Stuart Mill
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- Considerations on Representative Government; source text line 2542
- Considerations on Representative Government; source text line 2542
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