John Stuart Mill Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873
Birthday: May 20
Death: May 8
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?
source: John Stuart Mill (1867). “Speech of John Stuart Mill, M.P., on the Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise: Spoken in the House of Commons, May 20th, 1867”, p.5
topic: Justice, Words Of Wisdom, Principles, British Constitution
