 | John Stuart Mill - 1882 - 624 sayfa
...By the term optional it is not meant to imply, that it can ever be a matter of indifference, or ot arbitrary choice, whether the government should or...itself the functions in question ; but only that the expedicncy of its exercising them does not amount to necessity, and is a subject on which diversity... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1894 - 644 sayfa
...former may be termed the necessary, the latter the optional, functions of government. By the terra optional it is not meant to imply, that it can ever...its exercising them does not amount to necessity, an3 is a subject on which diversity oi opinion does or may exist. § 2. In attempting to enumerate... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1904 - 626 sayfa
...or not. The former may be termed the necessary, the latter the optional, functions of government. Bv the term optional it is not meant to imply, that it...its exercising them does not amount to necessity, ano is a subject on which diversity ol opinion does or may exist. § 2. In attempting to enumérete... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 344 sayfa
...several points in the Principles. Its most critical exposition comes when Mill defines theoptional functions of government: "By the term optional it...expediency of its exercising them does not amount to necessity."32 According to Mill, "authoritative" forms of optional state functions "require a much... | |
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By the term optional it is not meant to imply that it can ever be a matter of indifference, or of arbitrary choice, whether the government should or should not take upon itself the functions in question ; but only that the expediency of its exercising... 