| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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 - 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... | |
| 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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