Since "the community cannot have any interest opposed to its interests," James Mill argues all that is required is for "the interests of the representatives to be identified with those of their community." Mill thinks this can be achieved if there is frequent rotation in office, so that legislators know they will have to live under the laws they enact. Bentham adds the "principle of dislocability," the familiar notion that, because legislators want to be re-elected, they will do what the voters want (Bentham 1843f: 63,103, 118, 155). And in his context Bentham claims that what the voters want is the public interest. Bentham was impressed with the example of America and took it to prove by experience that