...the real duty of a representative to his The real constituency. He said: — ... TT -j representative "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . . But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience,...

...On this point the opinion expressed by Burke in his Bristol speech of 1774 is illuminating. He says: "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,...

...clear explanation of his own sentiments on that subject was due. He added : "Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs;...

...parliamentary service, and almost everything said here proves that to be so. Burke said: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. And that is what has been said here today, and no language could more appropriately describe the service...

...abolitionists reiterated the famous speech by Edmund Burke in 1774 and quoted from it: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the more unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him;...

...role, the modern representative cannot possibly measure up to Edmund Burke's solemn injunction that "it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents."9 It matters not, for this purpose, to review whatever else Burke said about representation,...

...trend of opinion? Edmund Burke, in his speech to the electors of Bristol on November 3, 1774, said, "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . ." But, Burke went on to say, "Your...

...as a representative of the empire's second city, and went out of his way to stress that he thought it 'ought to be the happiness and glory of a Representative,...correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents'.t75 He was a dutiful and industrious constituency MP. None the less he had a clear sense...

...possible."— Congressional Record, October 22, 1965, vol. I11, p. 28566. 280 Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs,—...

...duty of a representative, rightly understood. Certainly, he said amicably, a representative should "live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...most unreserved communication with his constituents." But all he was saying was that a representative should hear, understand and empathize with his constituents....