 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 2841827Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1963 - 585 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 572 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 572 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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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