 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,— and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. EDMUND BURKE, letter to the sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777.— The Works of the Right Honorable... | |
 | Hugh Ragsdale - History - 1996 - 332 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,—and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter." 41 Now let us add a reflection of Raymond Aron. "I imagine that a Russian who has been given a scholarship,... | |
 | Hugh Ragsdale - History - 1996 - 336 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, — and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter."41 Now let us add a reflection of Raymond Aron. "I imagine that a Russian who has been given... | |
 | Joseph James Chambliss - Education - 1996 - 742 pages
...free government is, I answer that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of the matter" (1982: 4). In his most famous book, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1962), Burke... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so — and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent...ought to thank them for so great a trust, and not to endeavor to prove from thence that they have reasoned amiss, and that, having gone so far, by analogy... | |
 | R. T. Allen - Philosophy - 294 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so— and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter," Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, vol. 3, p. 183. 5. We may add that that is, in a large part, a modem... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, — and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter." This is an important aspect of Burke's endorsement of the maxim that one must never be the judge in... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Law - 2005 - 918 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so; and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. . . ." Ibid., 2:273.) Among the "great variety of powerful causes" responsible for the "fierce spirit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so — and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent...ought to thank them for so great a trust, and not to endeavor to prove from thence that they have reasoned amiss, and that, having gone so far, by analogy... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - History - 2006 - 469 pages
...government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of the matter." "Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty adheres in... | |
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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so; and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. 
