By L. J. Hume
So much debts of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) care for him as a prophet of both utilitarianism or of liberal democracy. This booklet discusses a much less conventional yet extremely important element of his political notion: his idea of ways executive associations will be organised which will functionality as effective and but responsive guardians of the community's pursuits. It hence makes a speciality of his programme for he govt and judicial branches of presidency instead of for the legislature and the voters. Dr Hume means that eighteenth-century political suggestion was once richer in principles approximately executive that has often been allowed, yet that Bentham's specified characteristics of brain enabled him to widen and deepen these principles a lot extra than his contemporaries may have foreseen.
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