 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament....as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect. INSTUUMENTS BECOME MASTERS. IT is a law of nature, that whoever is necessary to what we have made our... | |
 | 1824 - 718 pages
...constitution. " Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile States; whose interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate...as any other from any endeavour to give it effect." pp. 179, 180. Rotten boroughs, as they are called, are the only means by which in general the monied... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to lie as far as any other from any endeavour to give it effect." On another occasion (1780), he told them — " I did not obey your instructions : No. I conformed to... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament....as any other from any endeavour to give it effect." On another occasion (1780), he told them — " I did not obey your instructions : No. I conformed to... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...but he ic a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form a hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good...as any other from any endeavour to give it effect. " On another occasion (1780), he told them—' I did not obey your instructions : no. 1 conformed to... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 532 pages
...form a hasty opinion, evidently opposed to the real good of the rest of the community, the member from that place ought to be as far as any other from any endeavour to give it effect I beg pardon for saying so much on this subject; I have been unwillingly 'drawn into it; but I shall... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...the general reason of the whole. You choose amember indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament....as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect. I beg pardon for saying so much on this subject. I have been unwillingly drawn into it ; but I shall... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...the general reason of the whole. You choose amember indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament....as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect. I beg pardon for saying so much on this subject. I have been unwillingly drawn into it; but I shall... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for thai very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions. I beg pardon for saying so much on this subject. I have been unwillingly drawn into it ; but I shall... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1835 - 464 pages
...but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form a hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good...any other from any endeavour to give it effect*." It is somewhat surprising to find Mr. Bentham, in his Constitutional Code, favouring a sort of * See... | |
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If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far as any other from any endeavour to give it effect. 
