 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 pagina’s
...constitution. . , Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors fromv different and hostile interests ^~wtrferi interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,...against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a 25 deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole , where, not local purposes,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 422 pagina’s
...land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution. 14. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. 15. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he... | |
 | Utah. Constitutional Convention - 1898 - 988 pagina’s
...of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress of embnssadors fron: different hostile inter<wts; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and...against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole: where no local purposes, no... | |
 | 1907 - 762 pagina’s
...if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from 566 567 different and hostile interests, which interests each...and advocate, against other agents and advocates; hut Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 626 pagina’s
...first and foremost with the promotion of the interests of his own Colony ; the conference in fact was ' a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile...and advocate against other agents and advocates.' The vote was taken by States, so that the smallest Colony had equal voting power with the greatest.... | |
 | Thomas D. Lynch - 1997 - 506 pagina’s
...believed that the "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" (49). When representatives perceive that they should have only one end to fulfill, and that is the... | |
 | Malcolm Waters - 1999 - 536 pagina’s
...component interests."33 Parliament, as Burke phrased it in the classic statement of the Old Whig theory, is "a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." Hence the MP should not be bound by authoritative instructions from his constituents and should rather... | |
 | Andr s Saj¢ - 1999 - 312 pagina’s
...the electors' will any more than the electors are bound by the representatives' statements and votes. Parliament is not a Congress of Ambassadors from different...against other Agents and Advocates; but Parliament is a deliherative Assembly of one Nation, with one Interest, that of the whole; where, not local Purposes,... | |
 | Paul Franco - 1999 - 420 pagina’s
...hostile interests . . . but Parliament is a deliberative Assembly of one Nation, with ow^Interest, that of the whole; where, not local Purposes, not...Good, resulting from the general Reason of the whole. You chuse a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a... | |
 | Hermann Schmitt, J. J. A. Thomassen - 1999 - 332 pagina’s
...European peoples. At the European level they would be represented by their governments who would behave as 'a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile...and advocate, against other agents and advocates', to use the words with which Edmund Burke reprimanded such delegates. But in the case of a purely intergovernmental... | |
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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,... 
