 | M. Kent Jennings, Thomas E. Mann - 1994 - Страниц: 350
...rigidly separated categories, Even though Burke's preference was clear, he felt at the same time that "it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents" (as quoted in Eulau et al, l959, 747l, 2, The significance of empirical research of role conceptions... | |
 | Edwin Diamond, Robert A. Silverman - 1995 - Страниц: 214
...Burke spoke to the Bristol electorate as a realist who understood what popular democracy required: "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents." But he added: "your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays... | |
 | Jürg Steiner - 1996 - Страниц: 196
...and politician Edmund Burke, who in an election speech in Bristol in 1774 acknowledges at first that "it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs— and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest... | |
 | James A. Mackin - 1997 - Страниц: 300
...partial recognition of the necessary role of the representative in deliberation: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | Joseph M. Bessette - 1994 - Страниц: 316
...by the electorate. Though well known, it is worth quoting here at some length. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...satisfactions, to theirs — and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - Страниц: 720
...speech he put forth the classic expression of his doctrine of representation: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Christopher Vincenzi - 1998 - Страниц: 352
...conduct of government. In 1774, Edmund Burke made his celebrated declaration to the electors of Bristol: It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - Страниц: 540
...master, subservient to their will, not superiour to it." Burke refused any such vow of compliance: "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...high respect; their business, unremitted attention. . . . But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly... | |
 | John E. McDonough - 2000 - Страниц: 364
...the interests of his constituents than the previous excerpt implies. Before those words, he said of his constituents: Their . . . wishes ought to have...their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attenrion. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs —... | |
 | Robert Weissberg - 2000 - Страниц: 278
...sacrifice his own judgment to the opinions of his constituents, Burke felt that the representative should "live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents".8 Although most councilors agreed that in doing their job, they were guided by constituent... | |
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Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. 
