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" The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 284
1827
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The State of Europe: Transformations of Statehood from a European Perspective

Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Monika Mokre, Michael Latzer - 2004 - 364 pages
...others (see Birch 1971,38). In the year 1774, before he made his famous speech in Bristol, he wrote: »The virtue, spirit, and essence of a house of commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation« (Fairlie 1968, 36). Within the collective subject of...
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Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis

Giovanni Sartori - 2005 - 368 pages
...entails, by necessity, a partybased system of government. This is very clear in Burke. His stance was: "The virtue, spirit and essence of a house of commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people....
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...distinction of a popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people,...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 pages
...distinction of a popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people,...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 pages
...distinction of a popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people,...
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The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 36

Great Britain. Parliament - 1817 - 822 pages
...distinction of a popular representative, which belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people,...
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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Edmund Burke - 1913 - 220 pages
...distinction of a popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a house of commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people,...
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