CONTENTS. SECT. I.—On the Progress and Present State of Political II.-On the Conduct of a Candidate.-Canvassing III.-On the Conduct of a Candidate (in continuation). Lately published by the same Author, 1. ESSAYS on the FORMATION and PUBLICATION of OPINIONS, and on other subjects. The second Edition, revised and enlarged. Price 8s. in boards. ESSAYS on the PURSUIT of TRUTH, on the 3. QUESTIONS for DISCUSSION in LITERARY SOCIETIES, on Political Economy, Politics, Morals, Metaphysics, Polite Literature, and other Branches of Knowledge, with Remarks under each Question, original and selected. Price 10s. 6d. in boards. 4. A CRITICAL DISSERTATION on the NATURE, MEASURES, and CAUSES of VALUE; chiefly in reference to the Writings of Mr. Ricardo and his Followers. Price 7s. 6d. in boards. 5. A LETTER to a POLITICAL ECONOMIST; occasioned by an Article in the Westminster Review on the Subject of Value. Price 4s. ON THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION. INTRODUCTION. SECTION I. On the Progress and Present State of Political Representation. THE subject of the following Treatise is daily becoming of higher importance. The successful operation of representative governments as exhibited in England, and in a still more striking manner in the United States of America, promises to lead in the course of time to the establishment of the same system in other countries, where at present the will of the monarch, instead of being under the salutary influence of constitutional checks, is irregularly controlled by variable views of private benefit, or apprehensions of personal danger. The system of political representation, now B |
