Table of Contents

1: Real and Fictitious Entities
2: The Principle of Utility
3: Natural Law and Natural Rights
4: The French Revolution
5: The Emergence of Sinister Interest
6: Parliamentary Reform
7: The Church
8: Colonies and Constitutional Law
9: Codification, Constitutional Law, and Republicanism
10: Publicity, Responsibility, and the Architecture of Government
11: The Antidote to Sinister Interest: Official Aptitude
12: The Politics of Law Reform
13: Last Things
Bibliography
Index

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Winner: W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize

About the Author

Philip Schofield joined the Bentham Project, based at University College London, in 1984. He joined the Faculty of Laws as a Lecturer in 1993, and was subsequently appointed to a Readership and then to a personal Chair in the History of Legal and Political Thought. He was appointed Joint General Editor, with Frederick Rosen, of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham in 1995, and has been sole General Editor since 2003. He has been Director of the Bentham
Project since 2001.

Reviews

...anyone who wants to understand Bentham's evolution into radical democrat must now start with this thorough study. William Thomas, English Historical Review ' Utility and Democracy is in a class by itself, demonstrating a complete command of the subject, and bringing twenty years of careful research to vivid life. Schofield brilliantly unpacks the development of Bentham's thought across a wide range of topics, from his famous principle of utility to his views on constitutional and parliamentary reform in a true tour de force. Schofield's Utility and Democracy will undoubtedly be the leading work on the subject for some years to come.' Political Studies Association, WJM Mackenzie Book Prize Panel 2006