...always sure to follow it. THE DUTIES OF A EEPKESENTATIVE. From the Bristol Speech, November 3, 1774. It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened...

...decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest nnion, the closest correspondence, and the most, unreserved communication with his constituents. Their...

...following is the passage referred to :— " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a repre" sentative to live in the strictest union, the closest " correspondence, and the most unreserved communi" cation with his constituents. Their wishes ought to " have great weight with him; their opinion,...

...relation of a member of Parliament to his constituents. He believed it to be "the happiness and the glory of a representative to live in the strictest...most unreserved communication with his constituents." "It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs, and above all,...

...abolitionists reiterated the famous speech by Edmund Burke in 1774 and quoted from it: Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...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...high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . ." But, Burke went on to say, "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment;...

...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...

...possible."— Congressional Record, October 22, 1965, vol. I11, p. 28566. 280 Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,...

...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....