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• Essays On Politics and Society
• Thoughts On Parliamentary Reform 1859
• Recent Writers On Reform 1859
• Considerations On Representative Government 1861
• Editor’s Note
• Preface
• Chapter I: To What Extent Forms of Government Are a Matter of Choice
• Chapter II: The Criterion of a Good Form of Government
• Chapter III: That the Ideally Best Form of Government Is Representative Government
• Chapter IV: Under What Social Conditions Representative Government Is Inapplicable
• Chapter V: Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies
• Chapter VI: Of the Infirmities and Dangers to Which Representative Government Is Liable
• Chapter VII: Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only
• Chapter VIII: Of the Extension of the Suffrage
• Chapter IX: Should There Be Two Stages of Election?
• Chapter X: Of the Mode of Voting
• Chapter XI: Of the Duration of Parliaments
• Chapter XII: Ought Pledges to Be Required From Members of Parliament?
• Chapter XIII: Of a Second Chamber
• Chapter XIV: Of the Executive In a Representative Government
• Chapter XV: Of Local Representative Bodies
• Chapter XVI: Of Nationality, As Connected With Representative Government
• Chapter XVII: Of Federal Representative Governments
• Chapter XVIII: Of the Government of Dependencies By a Free State
• Centralisation 1862
• Appendices
• Appendix a Taylor’s Statesman (1837)
• Appendix B Appendix to Dissertations and Discussions, Vol. I (1859)
• Appendix C Jowett On Civil Service Examinations (1854)
• Appendix D Substantive Variants Between the People’s Edition and the Final Library Edition of On Liberty
• Appendix E Substantive Variants Between the People’s Edition and the Final Library Edition of Considerations On Representative Government
• Appendix F Bibliographic Index of Persons and Works Cited In the Essays, With Variants and Notes

EDITOR’S NOTE

3rd ed. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. Reprinted from the 2nd ed. (London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861), and 1st ed. (London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861). Identified in JSM’s bibliography as “ ‘Considerations on Representative Government’ an 8vo Volume, published in April 1861” (MacMinn, 93). There are no corrections or emendations in the Somerville College Library copies of the 1st, 2nd, and People’s Editions.

For a discussion of the composition of the work, see the Textual Introduction, lxxxv-lxxxvii above.

The text below, that of the 3rd edition (the last in JSM’s lifetime), has been collated with those of the 2nd, 1st, and People’s editions. In the footnoted variants, the 3rd edition is indicated by “65”, the 2nd by “61²”, and the 1st by “61¹”. JSM quotes from his “Recent Writers on Reform” (see 499n) and Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (see 491-5, 495n-496n, 496-7, and 498-9); the changes are indicated as variants, in which “59¹” indicates “Recent Writers on Reform,” and “59²” indicates Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform, 2nd pamphlet ed. Substantive variants between the People’s Edition and the Library Edition of 1865 are given in Appendix E.