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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 338
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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The Friendship of Books: And Other Lectures

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole ;...Member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not Member of Bristol, but he is a Member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest,...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 pages
...and advocate) against other agents and advocates. But Parliament is a deliberative assembly of ono nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where...member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." See, on this subject, 1 Tuck. Black. Comm. App. 193 ; 2 Lloyd's Dob. in 1789. pp. 199 to 217. * See...
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Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ;...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose 10 a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member...
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The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Volume 1

Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1892 - 500 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ;...member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest,...
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An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of Parliament

Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1892 - 380 pages
...and advocate against the other agents and advocates. But parliament is a deliberative assembly of our nation with one interest, that of the whole, where...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You may choose a member, indeed, but when he is chosen he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member...
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The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 496 pages
...ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, — that of the whole...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 2 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become...
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The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 486 pages
...ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, — that of the whole...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 2 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become...
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The Development of Parliament During the Nineteenth Century

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - 1895 - 232 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. ... It is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole, where not local purposes nor local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good. . . . You choose a member, indeed, but when...
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Proportional Representation

John Rogers Commons - 1896 - 320 pages
...and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of our nation, with one interest, — that of the whole,...member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." 1 In America, too, the problem of representative government has been that of nationalization. It has...
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Selections from Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 pages
...and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a 25 deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ,...choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen 30 him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should...
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