What are the conditions which determine the just and equitable representation of the people?

To secure a just and equitable representation of the people in Parliament is a matter which has at all times engaged the attention of thoughtful, practical legislators, and of great thinkers. That the idealist should be far in advance of the practical legislator is what we must naturally expect ; for in their ideal schemes of " The Best Form of Government," or " The Best Form of Representation," the former may easily overlook or surmount obstacles by assumptions which are not open to the practical legislator who attempts to reduce any ideal to practice. If knowledge and justice were synonymous, there would be less difficulty as regards the attainment of an ideally perfect representation, for this might be secured by basing the electorate upon some common fixed minimum standard of education