 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1927 - 584 pages
...years ago expressed in a speech to his constituents the difference between an agent and a trustee : "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,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1969 - 1098 pages
...electors of Bristol might well be recalled as the credo of i elected representative in a democracy : "Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a repräsentativ to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserve communication... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1971 - 1514 pages
...rightly) in favor of the coercive authority of such instructions. (Yrtaiiily, GcMitlcnu'ii, it ought to bo the happiness and glory of a representative to live...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | United States. 92d Congress, 2d session, 1972, United States. Congress - 1972 - 126 pages
...should govern parliamentary service, and almost everything said here proves that to be so. Burke said: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...most unreserved communication with his constituents. And that is what has been said here today, and no language could more appropriately describe the service... | |
 | David B. Chandler - 1976 - 268 pages
...member. The abolitionists reiterated the famous speech by Edmund Burke in 1774 and quoted from it: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the more unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him;... | |
 | Heinz Eulau - 1977 - 132 pages
...role, the modern representative cannot possibly measure up to Edmund Burke's solemn injunction that "it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents."9 It matters not, for this purpose, to review whatever else Burke said about representation,... | |
 | Leo Bogart - 308 pages
...trend of opinion? Edmund Burke, in his speech to the electors of Bristol on November 3, 1774, said, "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . ." But, Burke went on to say, "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment;... | |
 | Paul Langford - 1991 - 640 pages
...as a representative of the empire's second city, and went out of his way to stress that he thought it 'ought to be the happiness and glory of a Representative,...correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents'.t75 He was a dutiful and industrious constituency MP. None the less he had a clear sense... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...system that makes that possible."— Congressional Record, October 22, 1965, vol. I11, p. 28566. 280 Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | George F. Will - 2010 - 284 pages
...duty of a representative, rightly understood. Certainly, he said amicably, a representative should "live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...most unreserved communication with his constituents." But all he was saying was that a representative should hear, understand and empathize with his constituents.... | |
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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. 
