 If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 14by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Hanna F. Pitkin - 1967 - 340 pages
...and compromise on which decisions should be based. And, as Burke asked, what sort of a system is it "in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decides; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those... | |
 | Dan Sisson - 1974 - 512 pages
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 | John F. Manley - 1976 - 538 pages
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 | 1977 - 1234 pages
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 | William E. Conklin - 1979 - 350 pages
...words, a matter "of reason and judgment, and not of inclination."61 Burke has posed this question: "and what sort of reason is that in which the determination...miles distant from those who hear the arguments?" Accordingly, legislators were not delegates of the constituents. Rather, legislators were an elected... | |
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