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Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

John Stuart Mill
Government, Office, Watches
Considerations on Representative Government ch. 5 (1861)
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.