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The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency....

The State of the Nation: In a Series of Letters to His Grace, the Duke of ... - Page 95
by John Cartwright - 1805 - 173 pages
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House of Commons Debates, Official Report, Volume 1

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Canada - 1921 - 1172 pages

...previously held. We contend that the dictum of Edmund Burke " that the value, spirit and essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feeling of the nation " is the proper constitutional standpoint to take. We believe — and I do not...

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