 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1880 - 290 pages
...your delegate, but will enter the House free and unfettered" Gammon — draw it mild." " The opinion of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion,...ought always to rejoice to hear, and which he ought most seriously to consider ; but authoritative instruction, mandates issued which the member is bound... | |
 | Sheldon Amos - Constitutional history - 1880 - 556 pages
...determination precedes the discussion ; in which 1 one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and ' where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three ' hundred miles distant from those who hear the argu' ments ? To deliver an opinion is the right of all men ; ' that of constituents is a weighty and... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? . . . Authoritative instructions, mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? 25 To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 392 pages
...determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? " For six years the proud merchants of Bristol were content to be served by a man of this sort. But... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...determination precedes 5 the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred...deliver an opinion is the right of all men ; that 10 of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 232 pages
...determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? " l These principles he heartily followed in practice. For example, in 1778 a bill was proposed for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 238 pages
...determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? " ' These principles he heartily followed in practice. For example, in 1778 a bill was proposed for... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 392 pages
...determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? 12. To deliver an opinion is the right of all men; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable... | |
 | HAMMOND LAMONT - 1897 - 236 pages
...determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?"1 These principles he heartily followed in practice. For example, in 1778 a bill was proposed... | |
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But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who... 
