 | Liberal Publication Department - Great Britain - 1908 - 528 pages
...House which was expressed by Edmund Burke in these words — " The virtue, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the nation." "The Repose Characteristic of a Single-Chamber System." I know of no instance under a congenial... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - France - 1910 - 404 pages
...distinction of a popular representative. - This belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...feelings of the nation. ' It was not instituted to be a control upon the people.) It was designed as a control for the people. Privilege of the crown and privilege... | |
 | John H. Humphreys - Elections - 1911 - 486 pages
...Campbell-Bannerman quoted the declaration of Burke, that " the virtue, the spirit, the essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the nation." In the Parliament elected in January 1910, further resolutions were carried by the Commons... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - Constitutional law - 1912 - 236 pages
...were not altogether unrepresented in the House : an approximation was made to the ideal of Burke that "the virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons,...in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation."1 Each pair of members then represented one of the complex little groups in which the national... | |
 | John MacCunn - Philosophy - 1913 - 290 pages
...of a brief for his own constituents. Yet it is not unreasonable. To borrow words of Burke's own : ' The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...its being the express image of the feelings of the nation.'1 And ceteris paribus, it is always an advantage that 1 Thoughts on the Present Discontents.... | |
 | Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes - Great Britain - 1913 - 600 pages
...House, which was expressed by Edmund Burke in these words, "The virtue, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the nation." I know of no instance under a congenial regime, that is to say, not in recent times, when... | |
 | Charles Seymour, Donald Paige Frary - Elections - 1918 - 484 pages
...statesmen, amongst them Burke, who did not fear to assert that "the virtue, the spirit, the essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the nation." But the political power of the Prime Minister would doubtless have sufficed to disarm the... | |
 | Edward Melland - Great Britain - 1919 - 42 pages
...be complete and Bureaucracy will not be absolutely dead. Burke's words are as true now as ever: — The virtue, spirit and essence of a House of Commons...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.... | |
 | Alva Edward Garey - 1920 - 224 pages
...bring the results wholly overlooked by Burke when he said: "The virtue, the spirit , the essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the nation." Por at the close of the eighteenth century when these words were spoken it could be said truthfully... | |
 | Arthur Ritchie Lord - Political science - 1921 - 316 pages
...it, all originate from the people.' ' The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consist in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people. It was designed as a control for the people.' ' A vigilant and jealous eye... | |
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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.... 
