...our age and country the citizen must generally act through a party. Edmund Burke defined a party as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint...interest upon some particular principle in which they are agreed. ' ' And he urges that a citizen ought to seek to make his convictions felt by cooperation with...

...conduct, ' measures not men ' will be the rule of it." — SHELBURNE (Chatham's adherent) to Rockingham. " Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their...national interest, upon some particular principle upon which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive that anyone believes...

...Government is involved that acourt can act." — Macy. LESSON XXXIV POLITICAL PARTIES "A political party is a body of men united for promoting by their...particular principle in which they are all agreed. Party division, whether in the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government."...

...principles of political monopoly and exclusion on which Walpole had acted. Burke defined party as " a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...national interest, upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed." 2 This is the modern English doctrine, but in 1770, when Burke propounded...

...apologist—is Burke. "Party" he defines as " a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." He argues that such " connexions in politics " are " essentially necessary for the full performance...

...secured. Burke's definition of party as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed," though panegyrical, might then have had place. Deliverance from the Stuarts and their tyranny was a...

...Burke's well-known formula, a 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." However elastic may be this definition given by the great champion of the party system, it assigns...

...resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. 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. For...

...corruption, and must be restored to its proper function. '^According to Burke's well-known formula, a 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." However...

...view is perhaps best stated by Edmund Burke, the great defender of party action. He defined party as "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...national interest, upon some particular principle upon which they are all agreed." Professor Jesse Macy, also, gives expression to the same conception...