...formed here in imitation of it, the most questionable is party government. Burke defines party as " a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavors, the national interest on some particular principle in which they are agreed." The pureminded Burke thinks only of principle...

...PARTY POLITICS. PARTY, says Burke, ' is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavour the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed ; ' and if this definition be correct — and it has never that we are aware of been impugned — it...

...PARTY POLITICS. T)ARTY, says Burke, ' is a body of men united for promoting by I their joint endeavour the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed ; ' and if this definition be correct — and it has never that we are aware of been impugned — it...

...PARTY POLITICS. T)ARTY, says Burke, ' is a body of men united for promoting by I their joint endeavour the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed ; ' and if this definition be correct — and it has never that we are aware of been impugned — it...

...basis of reason or public morality it rests, and whether it can last. Burke says : Party is a body united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed. For my part I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in...

...familiar story of representative government. Burke's definition, "Party is a body of men united in promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest...particular principle in which they are all agreed," was accurately applicable to the small and coherent body of electors which ho represented. While remaining...

...says Burke in a well-known passage, "is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." And to the institution as thus denned little exception can be taken. But it is manifestly of the essence...

...company if he does not agree with them at least nine times in ten.— Thoughts on Pres. Discontents. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.— Thoughts...

...Peloponnesian. 19. The passage from Burke is rightly given by thirty-four members, and is as follows : ' Party is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon Mme particular principle in which they are all agreed ' (Prêtent...

...statesman more competent than Edmund Burke to give a sound definition of a party. He declared it to be "a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavors, the national interests upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." No one whose authority is worthy...