 | Great Britain - 1918 - 750 pages
...above. JOSEPH COMPTON-RlCKETT. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle...For my part, I find it impossible to conceive that anyone believes in his own politics, or thinks them to be of any weight, who refuses to adopt the means... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - United States - 1918 - 506 pages
...parties are organized and how they do their work. - Administration POLITICAL PARTIES DEFINED "A party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some principle on which they are all agreed." This is Burke's famous definition of a party. In general it... | |
 | Susan Mendus - Philosophy - 1988 - 280 pages
...to Burke' s classical definition: 'a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours die national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed'. " Such parties, to underline the point, are held together by principles, and their aim is to promote... | |
 | Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson - History - 1989 - 384 pages
...se. "Party," as Burke defines it, "is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed" (1826: 335). With this the pre-history of party ends and we enter a world recognizably modern and akin... | |
 | David Miller - Business & Economics - 1990 - 392 pages
...approximate to Burke's classical definition: 'a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed'.13 Such parties, to underline the point, are held together by principles, and their aim is... | |
 | Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - Political Science - 1992 - 377 pages
...Presidency, 1789-1829 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1984). The term party is used in our work in the Burkean sense of "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." 55. Jefferson to Madison, March 1793, Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., Writings, IX, 33-34. 56. See The Defense... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...und dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet darzustellen. Und so definiert Burke dann den Begriff Part ei: "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."1 Dieser Satz, der die Partei per se im Dienste des Gemeinwohls definiert, ist keineswegs in... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - Romanticism - 1990 - 318 pages
...Present Discontents (1770): "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."6 To Burke's mind the "national interest" remains a common object; but, as the phrase "some... | |
 | Eric B. Gorham - History - 1992 - 296 pages
...means of democratic participation, they can be a source of virtue. In Burke's terms, they are bodies "of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principles in which they are all agreed."5 Parties embody the ways each democracy chooses to govern... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...thus buttressed by one hundred pages of carefully wrought argument. And it is quite simple: "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." But although simple, the definition in effect carries the weight of the entire argument; it has been,... | |
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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by \ their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. 
