...representative, at least, and also, it must be said, in the opinion of a large body of the electors. Burke said it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...high respect, their business unremitted attention. " But," Burke goes on, " his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he...

...constituents in the short speech at the conclusion of the Poll at Bristol in November 1774. There 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,...

...PEOPLE* By Edmund Burke (1774) ******* CERTAINI,T, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of i representative to live in the strictest union, the...most unreserved communication with his constituents. TTieir wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted...

...electors of Bristol might well be recalled as the credo of i elected representative in a democracy : "Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a repräsentativ to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserve communication...

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

...member. The abolitionists reiterated the famous speech by Edmund Burke in 1774 and quoted from it: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...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...

...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....