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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. "
The Nineteenth Century - Page 124
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Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat

Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 pages
...superior to the faction in power. The Rockingham faction is a party, which Burke defines as "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the...national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed," whereas the current ministry is a faction. 122 In making such a distinction...
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Haagse tegenstrijdigheden: vier essays over burgers, overheid en politieke ...

2002 - 96 pages
...van een politieke partij is niettemin afkomstig van Edmund Burke (1729-1797): '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.' Maar die definitie kan gemakkelijk worden misverstaan. Burke bedoelde...
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George III: King and Politicians, 1760-1770

Peter David Garner Thomas - 2002 - 278 pages
...from Edmund Burke in his 1770 pamphlet Thoughts on the Present Discontents. '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.' When in a Commons debate of 13 May 1768 Henry Conway attacked 'factious...
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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought

Terence Ball, Richard Bellamy - 2003 - 772 pages
...transformation. Ostrogorski regarded the ideal nature of parnes to be the Burkean one of being 'a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the...national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed' (quoted at Ostrogorski i90a, voL II, p. 65ai. This view reflected the...
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The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002: Studies in a Broken Polity

Hugh Roberts - 2003 - 444 pages
...alia, the view of the political philosopher Edmund Burke that 'Party is a body of men united, for the promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.'35 By this definition, Algeria's parties are not parties. They are not...
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The Struggle for Labour's Soul: Understanding Labour's Political Thought ...

Raymond Plant, Matt Beech, Kevin Hickson - 2004 - 324 pages
...that the Party be 'normalised': that it be understood (to borrow Burke's definition) as 'a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.' It should be beholden to no 'special interests', for this sullied its...
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MODERN COMPARATIVE POLITICS: APPROACHES, METHODS AND ISSUES

SAMIRENDRA N. RAY - 1998 - 320 pages
...good" may be overlooked. For this reason, Edmund Burke's famous definition of party "as a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all united"3 cannot be ignored. It is important for the functioning of the political...
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Political Theory

RC Agarwal - 2004 - 580 pages
...the determinant of government".4 (5) According to Edmund Burk, "A political party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some political principle in which they agreed". Essentials of Parties. From these definitions we come to...
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Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis

Giovanni Sartori - 2005 - 368 pages
...religious principles ,25 Burke's much quoted but little understood definition is: "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." Ends require means; and parties are the "proper means" for enabling...
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De kleermakers en de keizer: inleiding tot politiek en politieke wetenschappen

Carl Devos - 2006 - 600 pages
...politieke partijen komt van Edmund Burke (1729-1797) en is neergeschreven in 1770: "Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular prindple in which they are all agreed." (Heywood 2002:249) Deze opvallend positieve connotatie van...
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