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In this work John Stuart Mill´s classic text Considerations on Representative Government is framed as a treatise of a theorem for guiding "civilized" governors in imperially democratizing "non-civilized others" for the ends of historically moving humanity towards "civilizational progress." This theorem is broken down into an architecture which consists of the first four chapters of Considerations and a conceptual architecture consisting of three notions: imperialism, democracy, and good governance. In outlining this theorem, gaps and shortcomings currently existing in the body of literature that engages Mill´s relationship with imperialism are identified. The theorem and the secondary literature are also used to problematize and argue against the call by some authors for a turn to Mill´s imperialism.

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Timothy Smith holds a B.A. in political science from UBC (2006) and an M.A. in political science from UVic (2007). He has worked as a Teaching Assistant and a Research Assistant in UVic´s Department of Political Science (2006 and 2007). In the fall of 2008 he begins doctoral studies in Victoria, B.C. Canada at UVic´s Department of Political Science.

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