 | Kirk Peter Meighoo, Peter A. Jamadar - 2008 - 266 Seiten
...electors of Bristol in 1774: 'Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion'". (Constitution Commission 1990, 30) [It should be noted, however, that Burke lost his Bristol seat in... | |
 | Sangmin Bae - 2012 - 196 Seiten
...peoples' changing wishes: "Your representative owes you not his industry alone but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." Edmund Burke, "Speech to the Electors of Bristol," in Edmund Burke on Government Politics and Society,... | |
 | William Safire - 2008 - 888 Seiten
...his constituents," adding "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." His constituency defeated him in the next election. (See FENCE MENDING.) containment Policy of limiting... | |
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But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a... 
