Sidenote: In all three forms there was a representative assembly, which alone could impose taxes.
Footnote 1: A primary assembly is one in which the members attend of their own right, without having been elected to it; a representative assembly is composed of elected delegates.
Its special virtue, according to him, consisted in the fact of its producing a representative assembly which "contained a large body of the property of the country, and in which the landed interests had a preponderating influence".
The Irish government wisely suppressed the scheme, and Perceval justified their action, on the ground that a representative assembly in Dublin, with such aims in view, bordered upon an illicit legislature.
It took the form of a scheme for a representative assembly to sit in Dublin, and manage the affairs of the Roman catholic population, under colour of framing petitions to parliament, and seeking redress of grievances.
An essential part of the scheme was the formation of a representative assembly in Dublin, to discuss and procure redress for the wrongs of catholics.
But there is another and still more important difference between a representative assembly and a primary assembly of the people.
Therefore a representative assemblyis composed of moderate men, representing a compromise of the views of their individual supporters.
But they are guilty of far more than that, for in another chapter of Mill's book we find that his conception of a representative assembly elected by the Hare system is a purely deliberative body.
Such an assembly would be as much a mob as any primary assembly of the people, and would in no sense be a representative assembly.
The charter is an important one, for by it the Proprietors gained both territorial and political rights; the freemen or representative assembly were to be consulted, and with their advice the Proprietor could enact laws.
There is another reason, of much weight, against the gradual and partial renewal of a representative assembly.
The proper duty of a representative assembly in regard to matters of administration is not to decide them by its own vote, but to take care that the persons who have to decide them shall be the proper persons.
The experience, not of England only, but of other countries, shows the great difficulty of working our present party system of government in a representative assembly which is divided into more than two parties.
Very soon the situation developes the important question how this commonwealth shall be administered--whether by a representative assembly, or by a picked council, or a single governor.
They are both unspoken orations, written to the address of a representative assembly--the one to the Boule or Senate of Athens, the other to the Parliament of England.
The means of greatness the same to both, the extinction of a representative assembly, once national, but already mutilated by violence, and sunk by its submission to that illegal force into general contempt.
Freedom of speech, being implied in the nature of a representative assembly called to present grievances and suggest remedies, could not stand in need of any special law or privilege to support it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "representative assembly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
