 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1889 - 344 pages
...are a trust from Providence for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and...upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 15 My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is... | |
 | Boyd Winchester - Constitutional law - 1891 - 510 pages
...are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and...serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion." Neither the Constitution of the United States, nor that of Switzerland, vests anywhere any power of... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 pages
...Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll," 1774, vol. iii. p. 236. CHAP, in ELECTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES 71 his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you,...upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination;... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 280 pages
...are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and...thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will on any side, yours, without question ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 392 pages
...he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1894 - 1116 pages
...convenience may be called the Caucus. ' Your representative,' said Burke to the electors of Bristol, ' owes you not his industry only, but his judgment, and he...of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. I maintained your interests against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. I knew you chose... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 486 pages
...ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. . . Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - Democracy - 1895 - 204 pages
...point he was free to act as he chose. ' Your representative,' said Burke to his constituents, ' owes you not his industry only but his judgment, and he...of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. ... It is a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is 25 deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and...opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be sub- 30 servient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government, were a matter of will... | |
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 
