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" Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle... "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 41
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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Romanticism and Anthony Trollope: A Study in the Continuities of Nineteenth ...

L. J. Swingle - Romanticism - 1990 - 318 pages
...offers his famous definition of "party" in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770): "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."6 To Burke's mind the "national interest" remains a common object; but, as the phrase "some...
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Die Wiederkehr der Klugheit: Edmund Burke und das Augustan Age

Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...unabhängig und dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet darzustellen. Und so definiert Burke dann den Begriff Part ei: "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."1 Dieser...
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Britsch und Kornmann: quellenkundliche Untersuchungen zur Theorie der ...

Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 pages
...unabhängig und dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet darzustellen. Und so definiert Burke dann den Begriff Partei: "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."1 Dieser...
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American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics

Peter W. Schramm, Bradford P. Wilson - History - 1993 - 286 pages
...and expressed. It is in these periods that parties most closely conform to Burke's famous definition: "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."1 In 1984,...
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Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue

Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...and is thus buttressed by one hundred pages of carefully wrought argument. And it is quite simple: "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." But although...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...confidence, who were not bound together by common opinions, common affections, and common interests. . . . Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my...
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The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change

Christina Wolbrecht - History - 2000 - 283 pages
...with interest and faction; in Edmund Burke's oft-quoted construction, a party is "a body of men [sic] united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the...interest, upon some particular principle in which they are agreed" (quoted in Ranney 1968, 146). The contemporary approach to parties is narrower; while real...
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La Raza Unida Party: A Chicano Challenge to the U.S. Two-party Dictatorship

Armando Navarro - Political Science - 2000 - 392 pages
...would help organize the nation's diverse interests for purposes of developing public policy: ."[A] party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interests, upon some particular principle in which they all agree."4 In short,...
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De Wetenschap der Politiek: Verkenningen

Bart Tromp - Political Science - 2007 - 484 pages
...helft van de achttiende eeuw formuleerde: 'Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joints endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.'5 Met deze definitie volgde Burke ten dele de opvattingen van Bolingbroke, die in de jaren...
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The Federalist

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1996 - 588 pages
...election to the House of Commons might be curtailed, and much of the power of that body lost, said that a party is "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." 38 Madison...
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