| Edmund Burke - 1905 - 136 páginas
...men must associate. Party, he said, 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.2 Burke took such an active part in the opposition that he was supposed to be the author of... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1906 - 1070 páginas
...vindication of political party, so often cited by upholders of the party system of government. " Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politicks, or thinks them to be of any weight, who refuses to adopt the means of having them reduced... | |
| J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 624 páginas
...apologetic definition of party is well known, and is always quoted in defence of the system. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." The oracle does not tell us how a principle of sufficient importance to unite half the nation and warrant... | |
| Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1908 - 600 páginas
...persons often comes nearer than the great parties of the present day to Burke's definition of party as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." For each of the leading parties includes men who are not wholly at one in their principles. Party aims... | |
| William Trufant Foster - 1908 - 516 páginas
...Present Discontents, defines "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." C. To enter politics as an independent party is taken to mean to establish itself as such a distinct... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1909 - 490 páginas
...he would find his philosophy of party strangely unreal. What party could now be fairly described as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed"? He might hear much about party principles, to be sure; platitudes flow as smoothly from platform speakers... | |
| Samuel Eagle Forman - 1909 - 302 páginas
...POLITICAL PARTIES "A political 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. Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1910 - 530 páginas
...sagacity and regard for fact in his Essay on the French Revolution. [' I think the reference is to "Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." — - "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents." Burke's works. London: Rivington. 1826. Vol.... | |
| Charles Howard McIlwain - 1910 - 486 páginas
...good eyes to see what Burke in the eighteenth century so clearly saw and so elegantly described, — "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." On the Continent it has never really existed. In the United States it may be doubted whether it has... | |
| Robert Clarkson Brooks - 1910 - 342 páginas
...OF PARTY SUPPORT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE THEORY OF PARTY SUPPORT PARTY, according to Burke, " is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."1 One must admit that the definition is admirable in that it lays emphasis upon the ideal end... | |
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