Mill On Liberty
... main ideas on how to balance the power. The first was to have immunities or rights and if the ruler infringed upon these rights the people would be justified in having a rebellion of some sort. The second was constitutional checks; where the community has a say in governmental acts or a group elected by the community had a say in major government decisions. As time progressed people decided it be necessary to have representatives or delegates to the government. There came a time when most of the earth was occupied by a democratic republic, and it made itself powerful in many nations. This took the idea of “self government” from the governing of those by themselves to the governing of all by the majority. The idea of this majority ruled seem fine to the people, yet there was still a problem. The majority may often decide to oppress part of the whole, and precautions against this happening are almost as much of a concern as the tyrannical government before. So still we must have a limitation on the power of the government. Morality also plays apart in government and governing. We can talk about self-governing and self-morality and self-laws. The problem there is people won’t always agree on what is right or moral. People are to opinionated and many a times blinded by self-prejudice or superstitions. People again don’t agree on how severe or non-severe a punishment should be. This makes “self morality” per say impossible in our world. Mills says we have three main rights that need to be respected for if they’re not we cannot use the word freedom or liberty to its full definition. First our freedom ...