 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain aa an agent and advocate) against other agents and advocates. But Parliament is a deliberative assembly of ono nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices,... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 pages
...our Constitution. " Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and...have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form a hasty... | |
 | Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - Political parties - 1892 - 378 pages
...and advocate against the other agents and advocates. But parliament is a deliberative assembly of our nation with one interest, that of the whole, where...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You may choose a member, indeed, but when he is chosen he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 490 pages
...decide ? . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation,...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 2 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 496 pages
...decide ? . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation,...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 2 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become... | |
 | Nicholas Deakin - Philosophy - 2000 - 328 pages
...Members. It is surprising how successful well-organized lobbies can be — such as the Sunday Observance 1 'Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole. . . . You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not Member of Bristol, but he... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2000 - 456 pages
...interests of rival classes. Their member for Bristol will be member not of Bristol, but of Parliament, "a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole."4 Their leaders know already that government by plebiscite and direct action overriding representatives... | |
 | Roberto Gargarella - Law - 2001 - 180 pages
...Burke stated that Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and...member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament.' In North America, the Federalists advanced... | |
 | Sam Wineburg - Education - 2001 - 278 pages
...represented in Parliament whether they voted for its members or not. "Parliament," declared Burke, "is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." See Robert A. Gross, The Minutemen and Their World (New York, 1976), 36. 10. The loyalists are correct... | |
 | Mark E. Rush, Richard Lee Engstrom - Law - 2001 - 216 pages
...Bristol, contended, that Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and...assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole—where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting... | |
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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,... 
