The form of government for any given country being (within certain definite conditions) amenable to choice, it is now to be considered by what test the choice should be directed; what are the distinctive characteristics of the form of government best fitted to promote the interests of any given society.

One of the foremost figures of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century, John Stuart Mill offered up examinations of human rights, personal and societal rights and responsibilities, and the striving for individual happiness that continue to impact our philosophies, both private and political, to this day.In this 1861 book, considered his most ambitious political treatise, Mill collects his thinking on: the extent to which forms of government are a matter of choice the criterion of a good form of government the social conditions under which representative government is inapplicable the proper functions of representative bodies the "extension of suffrage" modes of voting and much more.English philosopher and politician JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) served as an administrator in the East Indian Company from 1823 to 1858, and as a member of parliament from 1865 to 1868. Among his essays on a wide range of political and social thought are Principles of Political Economy (1848), Considerations on Representative Government (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869).

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John Stuart Mill is one of the foremost representatives of utilitarian thought as well as one of the most influential of nineteenth century liberals. Contents: To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice; The Criterion of a Good Form of Government; That the Ideally Best Form of Government is Representative Government; Under What Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable; Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies; Of the Infirmities and Dangers to Which Representative Government is Liable; Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All and Representation of the Majority Only; Of the Extension of the Suffrage; Should There be Two Stages of Election?; Of the Mode of Voting; Of the Duration of Parliaments; Ought Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament?; Of a Second Chamber; Of the Executive in a Representative Government; Of Local Representative Bodies; Of Nationality, as Connected with Representative Government; Of Federal Representative Governments; and Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State.