 | Courtenay Ilbert - 1911 - 268 sivua
...agent, and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole;...the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed: but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1911 - 318 sivua
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole;...the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose' a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol,... | |
 | John H. Humphreys - 1911 - 486 sivua
...deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purpose, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,... | |
 | John H. Humphreys - 1911 - 462 sivua
...give undue weight to sectional interests. " Parliament," said Burke, " is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purpose, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason... | |
 | Henry Crosby Emery - 1913 - 200 sivua
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ;...the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You chuse a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - 1997 - 270 sivua
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates, but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole;...the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 sivua
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole —...the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sivua
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole;...the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,... | |
 | Joseph M. Bessette - 1994 - 316 sivua
...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? . . . Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole;...the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.2 Although representatives have an obligation to prefer the interests of their constituents... | |
 | Bernard Manin - 1997 - 260 sivua
...justification, that representation requires an assembly and that the role of an assembly is to debate. nation, with one interest, that of the whole - where...the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." E. Burke, "Speech to the Electors of Bristol" [1774], in RJS Hoffmann and P. Levack... | |
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Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest... 
