 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1907 - 130 pages
...answerable. False Your representative owes you not his industry Democracy only, but his ju<lgment ; 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... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1921 - 858 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." But in a subsequent passage he says that the representative cannot be treated merely as a mandate bearer... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 486 pages
...attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest...side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. Hut government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what... | |
 | Sidney Low - 1910 - 338 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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1911 - 492 pages
...attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest...be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a mattes of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation... | |
 | Courtenay Ilbert - 1911 - 268 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...innocent: if government were a matter of will upon my side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters... | |
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 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." This is a sweeping declaration of the obligation of individual conviction, which is, or ought to be,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1912 - 196 pages
...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 You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - 1912 - 236 pages
...constituents at Bristol.2 "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." Since Burke's day, all this has been changed. The modern House of Commons is no longer made up of free... | |
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But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a... 
