Original: Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. [...] Government and Legislation are matters of reason and judgement, and not of inclination; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one sett of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of Constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a Representative ought always to rejoice to hear; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions; Mandates issued, which the Member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgement and conscience; these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land.
Edmund Burke: Speech to the electors of Bristol, November 3th 1774 (Memento des Originals vom 23. April 2013 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.econlib.org
Österreich: Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz Art. 56. Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes, 15. September 2016, abgerufen am 21. Mai 2022: „Artikel 56. (1) Die Mitglieder des Nationalrates und die Mitglieder des Bundesrates sind bei der Ausübung dieses Berufes an keinen Auftrag gebunden.“
econlib.org
Original: Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. [...] Government and Legislation are matters of reason and judgement, and not of inclination; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one sett of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of Constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a Representative ought always to rejoice to hear; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions; Mandates issued, which the Member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgement and conscience; these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land.
Edmund Burke: Speech to the electors of Bristol, November 3th 1774 (Memento des Originals vom 23. April 2013 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.econlib.org
gesetze-im-internet.de
Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Art 38. Bundesminister der Justiz, abgerufen am 21. Mai 2022: „Art 38 – (1) […] Sie sind Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.“
Original: Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. [...] Government and Legislation are matters of reason and judgement, and not of inclination; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one sett of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of Constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a Representative ought always to rejoice to hear; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions; Mandates issued, which the Member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgement and conscience; these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land.
Edmund Burke: Speech to the electors of Bristol, November 3th 1774 (Memento des Originals vom 23. April 2013 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.econlib.org
spiegel.de
Uwe Hoffmann: Die NPD. 1998, ISBN 3-631-35439-8, S. 403; Uwe Hoffmann bezieht sich auf Der Spiegel. 8/1970 (online) und die FAZ. vom 9. April 1970.
Original: Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. [...] Government and Legislation are matters of reason and judgement, and not of inclination; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one sett of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of Constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a Representative ought always to rejoice to hear; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions; Mandates issued, which the Member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgement and conscience; these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land.
Edmund Burke: Speech to the electors of Bristol, November 3th 1774 (Memento des Originals vom 23. April 2013 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.econlib.org