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...he is deeply answerable. 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." But in a subsequent passage he says that the representative cannot be treated merely as a mandate bearer...

...the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, [171 Democracy onlV, but his j u d gment; an d Qe betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests...

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...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect; their business unreniitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation...

...representative," said Burke to the electors of Bristol, "owes you not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving, you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. I maintained your interests against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. I knew you chose...

...he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices...innocent: if government were a matter of will upon my side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters...

...he is deeply answerable. 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." This is a sweeping declaration of the obligation of individual conviction, which is, or ought to be,...

...to any set of men living 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 You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is...

...constituents at Bristol.2 "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." Since Burke's day, all this has been changed. The modern House of Commons is no longer made up of free...