The ongoing discussion about the crisis of parliamentarism shows that the normative justification and systematic determination of parliamentary functions and democratic public discourse are crucial for the future of representative democracy. However, this problem is not new, as John Stuart Mill's classic text illustrates. It revolves around the question of how the danger of a tyranny of the majority can be reconciled with the participatory requirements of democratic governance. In it, Mill argues for a deliberative understanding of politics and discusses the dangers of bureaucratic strangulation of political freedom. A key work in democratic theory and the study of parliamentarism.