| Boyd Winchester - Constitutional law - 1891 - 510 pages
...which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion." Neither the Constitution of the United States, nor that of Switzerland, vests anywhere any power of... | |
| Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 15 My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is... | |
| Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 pages
...Conclusion of the Poll," 1774, vol. iii. p. 236. CHAP, in ELECTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES 71 his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. " My worthy colleague says his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 280 pages
...which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent.... | |
| Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 408 pages
...or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, ami not of inclination ; and what... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1894 - 1116 pages
...representative,' said Burke to the electors of Bristol, ' owes you not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. I maintained your interests against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. I knew you chose... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 496 pages
...you, to any man, or to any set of men living. . . Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his-judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what... | |
| Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - Democracy - 1895 - 232 pages
...representative,' said Burke to his constituents, ' owes you not his industry only but his judgment, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. ... It is a... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 486 pages
...any set of men living. . . Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...he is 25 deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be sub- 30 servient to yours. If that be all, the thing... | |
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