...with both mass- and elite-level participation by members who hold a common doctrine dear: "Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed" (Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790, p. 11). "Party is organized opinion"...

...Present Discontents, defined party as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed," he seems to have had something rather different in mind. 19 Modern students of party, in fact, when they...

...l0l, Burke defined a political party as "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed" (as quoted in Sartori l976, 9l, By recognizing a particular principle as the basis for a political...

..."the political Creed of our Party" (Corr. 2: 136; cf. xiv; W&S 2: 242). "Party," he said there, "is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed" (Works 2: 335; cf. Corr. 8: 39). The result of accepting this definition as the basis of ministries...

...affections, and common interests. . . . Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive, that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks...

...should be conducted by political parties, "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." 40 However, he warned that clandestine royal influence over the House of Commons must be eliminated...

...Instead it must be, as Burke described it, "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors, the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."35 In rejecting the corn laws, Peel rejected the "particular principle" upon which he came...

...distinguished from its degenerate form of 'faction' by the fact that party activities endeavour to promote 'the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed'. Factions are akin to partial or incomplete parties which is illustrated by the fact that their primary...

...that Edmund Burke's notion of party - "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed" - is in need of resuscitation, if only as a heuristic device. 9 If we do not treat the parties as purposive...

...with interest and faction; in Edmund Burke's oft-quoted construction, a party is "a body of men [sic] united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the...interest, upon some particular principle in which they are agreed" (quoted in Ranney 1968, 146). The contemporary approach to parties is narrower; while real...