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... Works - Seite 96von Edmund Burke - 1865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Ellis Thomas Powell - 1909 - 328 Seiten
...conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the...Ambassadors from different and hostile interests, w1hich interests each must maintain as an agent and advocate against other agents and advocates, but... | |
| Harry Graham - 1910 - 416 Seiten
...explain some change of views or to account for constant neglect of his parliamentary duties. Bristol, a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile...and advocate, against other agents and advocates. It is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes,... | |
| 1911 - 514 Seiten
...bound blindly and implicitly to obey . . . these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution." Every member of Parliament — such is the implicit theory of our constitution — sits for the whole... | |
| John Morley - 1913 - 338 Seiten
...convictions of his judgment and conscience — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.1 For six years the Bristol electors were content to be represented by a man of this independence.... | |
| Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 Seiten
...convictions of his judgment and conscience — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenour of our Constitution.' We return now to the Prime Ministers. After Rockingham came the Duke of... | |
| Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 Seiten
...convictions of his judgment and conscience — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenour of our Constitution.' We return now to the Prime Ministers. After Rockingham came the Duke of... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1983 - 1104 Seiten
...form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? . /. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different...interests; which interests each must maintain, as ah agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly... | |
| Duncan Gallie - 1984 - 356 Seiten
...divisions as 'inevitable', p. 47. 2 For Burke, Parliament was 'not a congress of ambassadors from different hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against the other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest,... | |
| Ralph Ketcham - 1987 - 294 Seiten
...forcefully: Parliament, he told his Bristol constituents in 1 774 while defending American rights, "is not a Congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each [member] must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament... | |
| E. Lauterpacht - 1988 - 790 Seiten
...of the corporate whole. I was reminded that Burke in his speech to the electors of Bristol said that "Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests" . He drew a distinction between delegates, who must obey those who appointed them, and representatives,... | |
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