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" Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 420
by Edmund Burke - 1806
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An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of Parliament

Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute, Toronto - 1892 - 188 pages
...in political science, 120 years after his defence of Party government ? Burke defined Party to be " a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interests upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." While he approved of this basis...
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Beiträge zur Geschichte der politischen Ideen und der Regierunspraxis. ...

Gottfried Koch - 1892 - 454 pages
...election to offi«, the people had the negative in a parliamentary refusal to support. p. 263 f. * ) party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint erideavoors the national interest upon some particular princ1ple in which they are all agreed. p. 3358...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 179

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 612 pages
...party government — certainly the first considerable apologist — is Burke. Party he defines as ' a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed.' He argues that such ' connexions in politics ' are ' essentially necessary for the full performance...
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A Short Constitutional History of England

H. St. Clair Feilden - 1895 - 392 pages
...coerce the King. Shortly afterwards these two parties received the names of Whigs whigs and Tories. 1 Party, is a body of men united for promoting by their...particular principle in which they are all agreed.' — Burke, Present Discontents. ' A party is a body of citizens who agree in desiring to see the business...
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A Short Constitutional History of England

H. St. Clair Feilden - 1895 - 394 pages
...calculated to coerce the King. Shortly afterwards these two parties received the names of Whigs Whigs and 1 Party, is a body of men united for promoting by their...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.'—Burke, Present Discontents. ' A party is a body of citizens who agree in desiring to see...
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A Lent in London: A Course of Sermons on Social Subjects

Christian Social Union (Great Britain). London Branch - 1895 - 274 pages
...those on one side or the other with whom we are bound to find that we agree. Party is a body of men for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle upon which they are all agreed. A bureaucracy would eliminate partisanship in politics, but it would...
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The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 634 pages
...desire to acknowledge many obligations, relates the most instructive incidents of general history. 1 "Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." —...
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Selections from Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 pages
...childish talker. They were not afraid that they should be called an ambitious Junto ; or that their 20 resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen,...particular principle in which they are all agreed. For . 25 my part, I find it impossible to conceive, that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks...
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Mere Literature, and Other Essays

Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 256 pages
...station." " A party," he declared, " is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." " Men thinking freely, will," he very well knew, " in particular instances, think differently. But...
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Political Science Quarterly, Volume 11

1896 - 800 pages
...End of Party. Burke defined party as " a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." In Burke's opinion, therefore, all parties have one and the same end, namely, to promote the "national...
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