Mill saw the passage of the Reform Act in 1832, but died shortly thereafter in London, in 1836. Major Relevant Works. A. Essay on government. He says we can assume that every human being is motivated by a desire to experience pleasure and to avoid pain. Pleasures and pains come from two sources, our fellow human beings an d nature.
Government is concerned directly with the first and indirectly with the second.
Nature and human nature conspire to make government necessary. Government exists for humans to find happiness and to help find it by investing as little effort as possible. Mill favored a representative democracy, where citizens elect representatives to deliberate and legislate on their behalf and in their interest. He favors frequent elections and short terms in office. Representatives are to be drawn from t he ranks of the people to which they can return once their time in office is up.