But don't our representatives owe us an apology too?
Political parties and elected representatives owe it to The People to earn our votes.
This study was approved by the ethics committee of Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, and written informed consent was obtained from the control subjects and each severely brain-injured patient's legal authorized representative owing to their comatose state within 24 hours of being deemed eligible.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion".
The British are still more or less believers in Edmund Burke's representative democracy where 'your representative owes you his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion'.
But Fred Ansell, one of his former senior aides, said Mr. Thompson shrugged off the potential political fallout by quoting the 18th century Irish political philosopher Edmund Burke: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion".
True, as Alan Posner points out, Burke was of another time, and of a society more hierarchical than ours, but his strong sense of the duty of his class could certainly have instructed those Republicans pandering to the Tea Party: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion".
And they did so realizing, as a character in the film says -- quoting the words of conservative icon Edmund Burke, member of the British Parliament -- that a representative owes the people not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.
The main strength of our study is the large population sample that is nationally representative owing to a random age- and gender-stratified selection, inclusion of both urban and rural areas of Scania thereby increasing generalization of data.
The main strength of our study is the large population sample that is nationally representative owing to a random age- and gender-stratified selection and inclusion of both urban and rural areas.
