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Often appears with: reform act dissolution · proportional representation · political legitimacy and consent · fate, destiny, and necessity · elections and representation · conservative opposition
Usually: reflection (1) · the fall of the great (1) · detachment (1)
After the Reform Act Parliament dissolved in autumn 1868, Mill lost his Westminster seat and reflects on why conservatives opposed him, noting their expectations failed given his stance for democracy paired with reforms like proportional representation.
recent labours in the same school of thought, to stand, as it now does, in company with Mr. Bain's treatises, at the head of the systematic works on Analytic psychology. In the autumn of 1868 the Parliament which passed the Reform Act was dissolved, and at the new election for Westminster I was thrown out; not to my surprise, nor, I believe, to that of my principal supporters, though in the few days preceding the el…