 | Sydney Edward Williams - Patriotism - 1886 - 168 pages
...opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. . . It is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one...interest, that of the whole, where not local purposes nor local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good. . . You choose a member, indeed, but when... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1889 - 344 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates;...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a Member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not Member of Bristol, but he is a Member of... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain aa an agent and advocate) against other agents and advocates. But Parliament is a deliberative assembly of ono nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices,... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of... | |
 | Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - Political parties - 1892 - 380 pages
...and advocate against the other agents and advocates. But parliament is a deliberative assembly of our nation with one interest, that of the whole, where...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You may choose a member, indeed, but when he is chosen he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 486 pages
...decide ? . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation,...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 2 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 496 pages
...decide ? . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation,...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 2 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - Democracy - 1895 - 224 pages
...opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. ... It is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one...interest, that of the whole, where not local purposes nor local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good. . . . You choose a member, indeed, but when... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 494 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates;...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
 | John Rogers Commons - Proportional representation - 1896 - 320 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of our nation, with one interest, — that of the whole, — where not local purposes, not local prejudices,... | |
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Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest,... 
