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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. "
Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 282
by Irishman - 1844
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Educational Review, Volume 33

Education - 1907 - 630 pages
...convictions reveal them to him. Listen to Edmund Burke, speaking to the electors of Bristol. He said : " 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. . . . But his unbiased opinion, his mature...
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The Constitution of the United States in Some of Its Fundamental Aspects

Gaspar Griswold Bacon - Law - 1928 - 232 pages
...to the electors of Bristol: "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative," he said, " to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment,...
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The Constitutional Review, Volume 12

Constitutional law - 1928 - 272 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...his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weignt with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to...
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University of California Chronicle, Volume 9

United States - 1907 - 530 pages
...convictions reveal them to him. Listen to Edmund Burke, speaking to the electors of Bristol. He said : "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. . . . But his unbiased opinion, his mature...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the ...

United States. Congress - Government publications - 1966 - 186 pages
...closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communion with his constitu tents. Their views had great weight with him; their opinion high respect, their business unremitted attention. He sacrificed his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs; and, above all, ever and in all...
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Pennsylvania Bar Association. Meeting. Report of the ... Annual ..., Volume 33

Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 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,...
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The Newspaper Preservation Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

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...
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Committee Prints

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,...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the ...

United States. 92d Congress, 2d session, 1972, United States. Congress - Legislators - 1972 - 136 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...
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Capital Punishment in Canada: A Sociological Study of Repressive Law

David B. Chandler - Law - 1976 - 268 pages
...each 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;...
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