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John Stuart Mill
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVIII - Essays on Politics and Society Part I (On Liberty)
Vol. 18 of the 33 vol. Collected Works contains a number of Mill’s essays on politics, including his reviews of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and his book On Liberty.
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Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America
This essay proposed to retain America within the imperial structure by granting them the representation they lacked in Parliament through a general American Senate established to govern the “common concerns of the united states, and of judging and deciding between them, as a common Arbiter or Umpire.” The pamphlet went on to insist that civil societies may not “lawfully surrender their Civil Liberty, by giving up to any extraneous jurisdiction” the “power of legislating for themselves.”
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