Assembly Quote by John Stuart Mill

A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for…

— John Adams

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

— Allan H. Meltzer

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents;…

— John C. Calhoun

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

— Edward Snowden

The behaviour and approach of 'appointed' governors trying to control 'duly elected' governments amounts to mockery of our Constitution.

— M. K. Stalin

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

— Honore Gabriel Riquet

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

— Alexander Hamilton

In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of…

— Bernard Bailyn

“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract,…

— George Washington

“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its own prerogatives…

— Ben Carson

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the…

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore