 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
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 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 91 of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people,... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 pages
...fancy and Caprice." 68 In addition, the Commons ought, in Burke's opinion, to be close to the people: "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,... | |
 | W. M. Elofson - 1996 - 292 pages
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 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 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,... | |
 | Monika Mokre, Gilbert Weiss, Rainer Bauböck - 2003 - 310 pages
...Repräsentationsvorstellung weiter. Im Jahre 1774, vor seiner berühmten Rede in Bristol, hatte er geschrieben: »The virtue, spirit, and essence of a house of commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation« (zit. nach Fairlie 1968: 36). Innerhalb des Kollektivsubjekts... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2004 - 516 pages
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 | 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 - 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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