...situation: "What sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate and another decide; and where those who perform the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?"...

...but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. ... To deliver an opinion is the right of all men; that...weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative always ought to rejoice to hear and which he always ought most seriously to consider. But authoritative...

...transmission to the sovereign of their own particular demands. Here, too, England led the way. As Burke wrote: To deliver an opinion is the right of all men, that...weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative might always rejoice to hear But authoritative instructions, mandates issued, which the member is bound...

...the determination precedes the discussion; in which one sett of men deliberate, and another decide; where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three...miles distant from those who hear the arguments?" (Burke l774/l996: 69). l 82 Sei es durch öffentliche Foren oder irgendeine Art von Petition: „To...

...inclination; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and...opinion, which a representative . . . ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions, mandates issued, which the member is bound...

...themselves as an independent sovereign against a colonial potentate. 110. Burke himself acknowledged that "to deliver an opinion is the right of all men; that...which he ought always most seriously to consider" ("Speech at Mr. Burke's Arrival in Bristol," 156). 111. Pitkin, The Concept of Representation, 107-11....

...many of which had greatly decayed in wealth and influence; and an inferior class whose nobility was opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice to hear, and which he ought most seriously to consider; but authoritative instruction, mandates issued which the member is bound...

...inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination proceeds the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate and another decide; and where those who form the conclusions are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments. In saying this...

...matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests...

...inclination: and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and...three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?1 This issue is a very serious one at the present moment both in England and in America....