 | John Brewer - 1976 - 396 pages
...connections' arguments, his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents: party, 'a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed', could be contrasted with faction which was a body of men pursuing their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1981 - 536 pages
...fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. 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. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive, that any one believes... | |
 | F. A. Hayek - 1978 - 261 pages
...in the history of mankind. 9 Edmund Burke could still describe a party as a principled union of men 'united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some principle in which they are all agreed' (Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents (London,... | |
 | Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson - 1989 - 384 pages
...unaccountable are for Burke paradigmatic of party per 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... | |
 | David Miller - 1990 - 392 pages
...for concern in the case of parties that 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,... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pages
...definition of "party" in Thoughts on the Cause of the 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 pages
...fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. 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. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive, that any one believes... | |
 | Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger - 1996 - 284 pages
...mass- and elite-level participation by members who hold a common doctrine dear: "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" (Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790, p. 11).... | |
 | Francis Canavan - 1995 - 212 pages
...Creed of our Party" (Corr. 2: 136; cf. xiv; W&S 2: 242). "Party," he said there, "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" (Works 2: 335; cf. Corr. 8: 39). The result of accepting this definition... | |
 | Christina Wolbrecht - 2000 - 283 pages
...with interest and faction; in Edmund Burke's oft-quoted construction, a party is "a body of men [sic] united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the...national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are agreed" (quoted in Ranney 1968, 146). The contemporary approach to parties is narrower;... | |
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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. 
