The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... The Gentleman's Magazine - Página 5511817Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Monika Mokre, Michael Latzer - 2004 - 364 páginas
...Birch 1971,38). In the year 1774, before he made his famous speech in Bristol, he wrote: »The virtue, spirit, and essence of a house of commons consists...the express image of the feelings of the nation« (Fairlie 1968, 36). Within the collective subject of the nation there are no particular interests only... | |
| Giovanni Sartori - 2005 - 368 páginas
...necessity, a partybased system of government. This is very clear in Burke. His stance was: "The virtue, spirit and essence of a house of commons consists...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people. ... It was designed as a control for the people."74 However,/or the people... | |
| Edmund Burke - 718 páginas
...popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicous tendency.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 páginas
...popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 574 páginas
...popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... | |
| 1818 - 444 páginas
...popular representative, which belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a house of commons consists...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency,... | |
| 1818 - 482 páginas
...all forms. The virtue, spirit, und essence of a house of commons consists in its being the expres* image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control nfnn the people, as of late has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency,... | |
| John Richard Green - 1901 - 257 páginas
...electors at all. 1469. "The value, spirit, and essence of a house of commons," said Burke, in noble words, "consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation.'' But how far such a house as that which now existed was from really representing English opinion we... | |
| Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - 1921 - 1172 páginas
...previously held. We contend that the dictum of Edmund Burke " that the value, spirit and essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feeling of the nation " is the proper constitutional standpoint to take. We believe — and I do not... | |
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