This collection of selected work presents John Stuart Mill as a political theorist. In this seven-book edition you can find out Mill's thoughts on representative government, parliamentary reform and capital punishment. This collection also contains books where Mill discussed some of the current topics of his time such as the relations between England and Ireland, American Civil War and improvements in the administration of India. Contents: Considerations on Representative Government To What Extent Forms of Government Are a Matter of Choice The Criterion of a Good Form of Government That the Ideally Best Form of Government Is Representative Government Under What Social Conditions Representative Government Is Inapplicable Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies Of the Infirmities and Dangers to Which Representative Government Is Liable Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only Of the Extension of the Suffrage Should There Be Two Stages of Election? Of the Mode of Voting Of the Duration of Parliaments Ought Pledges to Be Required From Members of Parliament? Of a Second Chamber Of the Executive in a Representative Government Of Local Representative Bodies Of Nationality, as Connected With Representative Government Of Federal Representative Governments Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State England and Ireland Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years Revenue Administration,& Rights of the Rural Population Judicature and Legislation Improvement of the Country by Public Works Education Miscellaneous Improvements Bengal Survey Survey and Assessment of the North-western Provinces Survey and Assessment of the Bombay Territory Exemption of Lands Improved by the Ryots From Extra Assessment Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment The Contest in America Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform A Few Words on Non-intervention