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I. PLAN OF A DIALOGUE ON GOVERNMENT - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVII - Journals and Debating Speeches Part II [1827]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVI - Journals and Debating Speeches Part II, ed. John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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PLAN OF A DIALOGUE ON GOVERNMENT

On 49v of the Notebook appears the beginning of the dialogue on government mentioned in the text (p. 11), with an outline of the considerations bearing on people’s qualification for the suffrage.

As we have now, Sir, an opportunity, if it be agreeable to you it will be equally so to me, to continue the discussion which we commenced a day or two ago.

I suppose your Lordship alludes to that concerning government?

I do, Sir

I shall with great pleasure, my Lord, it ren

Qualification by some personal quality{By some bodily quality{1. By sex
{2. By age
{By some mental quality{3. By sanity of mind{4. By attested probity
{By some particular mental quality{5. By the possion of some branch of knowledge
Qualification by some extraneous circumstance{6. By the places which he holds in society as head of a family, as house holder, as house-owner, as land-owner, etc.{By something which depends on his revenue itself{7. By the greatness of his revenue
{7. By some circumstance relative to his revenue{9. By his disbursements i.e. by the amount of direct taxes which he pays{8. By the source from which he derives his revenue