...Considerations on Representative Government (1861), S. 161ff., 172: »Instead of the function of governmg, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office...assembly is to watch and control the government.« 14 Statt aller Schmitt, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus, S. 10ff. und...

...government. TOWARDS OPPOSITION AS ACCOUNTABILITY Mill's vision of a legislature is of a body whose function is: to watch and control the government: to throw...one considers questionable: to censure them if found condemnahle. and, if the men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfil it in a manner...

...is of a hody whose function is: I0 watch and control the government: to throw the light of puhlicity on its acts: to compel a full exposition and justification of all of them which any one considers questionahle: to censure them if found condemnahle. and, if the men who compose the government ahuse...

...Mill (Considerations on Representative Government, 1861, p. 104). British utilitarian philosopher: the proper office of a representative assembly is...all of them, which any one considers questionable... AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT OVERSIGHT A. United States Constitution The Constitution grants Congress extensive...

...questionable activities. Parliament, in John Stuart Mill's words, has the authority to 'watch and control government, to throw the light of publicity on its...a full exposition and justification of all of them that anyone considers questionable, to censure them if found condemnable.'50 For this reason, if for...

...More than a century ago, John Stuart Mill had articulated the view which remains valid even today: "Instead of the function of governing, for which it...assembly is to watch and control the government." Mill felt that the national legislature, in addition to exercising such control, should be the nation's...

...Reform of Parliament, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963 (2ndedn. 1968). The functions of Parliament Instead of the function of governing, for which it...exposition and justification of all of them which anyone considers questionable; to censure them if found condemnable, and, if the men who compose the...

...frustrates, to some degree, Congress' oversight responsibilities. For as John Stuart Mill said: "fTjhe proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the govemment; to throw die light of publicity on its acts: to compel full exposition and justification...

...backward or colonial people. Regarding the role of Parliament, Mill's view was that the Parliament was to watch and control the government, to throw the light of publicity on its acts, to censure them if condemnable. It was not the business of Parliament to govern and administer. He wanted...

...Parliament'. The point was made by Mill, writing in 1861, who spoke of the task of the legislature 'to watch and control the government: to throw the light of publicity on its acts'. It has been said of the contemporary position in Australia that, whilst 'the primary role of Parliament...