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- Title
Parliament and Locality: Representation and Responsibility in Late-Hanoverian England.
- Authors
Eastwood, David
- Abstract
Examines Edmund Burke's classic formulation of the idea of virtual representation. Consideration of parliament in senatorial terms; Instrumental notion on the role of constituencies; Transcendence of local interests in the conceptualization of national interest; Advocation of a theory of representation which placed legislator's judgement above the frictional interests of constituents.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; REPRESENTATIVE government; BURKE, Edmund, 1729-1797; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Parliamentary History, 1998, Vol 17, Issue 1, p68
- ISSN
0264-2824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1750-0206.1998.tb00588.x