 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...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... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - Electronic journals - 1921 - 858 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." But in a subsequent passage he says that the representative cannot be treated merely as a mandate bearer... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - Democracy - 1907 - 144 pages
...answerable. False Your representative owes you not his industry Democracy onlv, but nig 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, which interests... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - Democracy - 1907 - 136 pages
...the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, [171 Democracy onlV, but his j u d gment; an d Qe betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests... | |
 | Peter J. Burnell, Peter Calvert - Political Science - 1999 - 308 pages
...his Bristol constituents in blunt terms in l774. 'owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays. instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion'." It is Burke's version of representation, which gives the representative a signficant degree of autonomy,... | |
 | Ann K. Symons, Sally Gardner Reed - Computers - 1999 - 134 pages
...is that good men do nothing. Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — EDMUND BURKE hese two quotes from Burke — the first clearly attributed to him in Bartlett's but... | |
 | Andr s Saj¢ - Political Science - 1999 - 312 pages
...PARLIAMENTARISM AND THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 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. Edmund Burke 4.1. THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF PARLIAMENT 4. 1 . 1 . THE EVOLUTION OF PARLIAMENTARISM AND... | |
 | Peter J. Burnell, Peter Calvert - Political Science - 1999 - 312 pages
...his Bristol constituents in blunt terms in l774. 'owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion'.e It is Burke's version of representation, which gives the representative a signficant degree... | |
 | Douglas C. Foyle - Political Science - 1999 - 404 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.3 According to this view, the public's role should be limited to selecting the best persons... | |
 | Lawrence D. Longley, Reuven Y. Hazan - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 356 pages
...sacrifice to you, to any man. ... Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." These two competing ideals exist in many, if not most, legislative systems, yet it is not these alone... | |
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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. 
