...conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." 203 Emergent Democracy? When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on Earth can imprison...

...be established? Other questions flow from it: Edmund Burke is frequently quoted for his courageous "Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion." But Burke lost his next election. Was the father of conservatism too much of an elitist? How can we...

...representation had a respectable pedigree; the English conservative Edmund Burke famously told his electors that "your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead ot serving you. if he sacrifices it to your opinion". But practising pastoralists like Wentworth were...

...to any set of men living ... Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he 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...

...Burke had told his electors: 'Your representative owes you not his industry alone but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving, you if he sacrifices it to your opinion' (1902, 447). This description is no longer accurate - if, indeed, it ever was; moreover, it is open...

...1774. "Your representative owes you, not his industry only," Burke counselled, "but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion." In Svara's terms. Burke was telling the citizens of Bristol that they should expect their elected representatives...

...statesman Edmund Burke said, "Your Representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion." The first vote in the House was to send the sweepstakes bill to the State Supreme Court for an advisory...

...you, not his industry only, but his judgement," as Edmund Burke warned the voters of Bristol in 1774, 'and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.'39 Yet the relationship between representation and deliberation was never straightforward....

...conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure — no, nor from the...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent....

...the spirit of Edmund Burke 's celebrated address to the electors of Bristol in 1774, when he said: 'Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.' The politician must listen to people. But he/she must not merely follow public opinion: he/she must...