J S Mill On Plural Voting

J S Mill on Plural Voting

~One vote should not be counted, but should be weighted, for this, the society and electing people should be divided into groups.

~According to JS Mill the intelligent and virtuous people vote is more important and valued than the fool and dumb man vote.

~JS mill advocates the grading of the people, on basis of their caliber.

~The plural vote will help and assist the educated and responsible class, and will save it from the fury of the illiterate and less virtues people,, mediocrity.

~The vote value should be determined by the, education qualification, property and how much tax they pay, by this only responsible people, will get chance to vote and to govern.

For governing a state, the people should be have, mental culture and moral quality.

~The system was used in the Belgium till 1921, the educated vote was added as more valued than others.

~We can say, that J S Mill expounded such theory, because from young age he was, well educated and he regarded himself, more prime and just than the other, illiterates.

He felt humble and unjust, when he see the state is being run by bunch  of fool and dumb people, this was factor behind the Plural voting Concept.

Merits

~This system will lead to a system which administer, by well educated and responsible people, and the voter will wise enough to vote good person to office.

~Under this system, the educated person, will vote for good man, there is little chance of getting biased and fanatic.

~Lastly, under this it will lead to no buying of votes.

Demerit

~It is against the concept of equality.

~It will lead to discrimination.

~It will be system of intelligent people only.

~This is against the concept of Democracy.

 

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