Former legislators held the opinion that they were elected to represent and maintain the interests of their constituents--not to withdraw for the sake of indulging some petulant or romantic impulse because they could not have their own way.
Alexander emphasizes the responsibility of legislators to represent their constituents rather than act on personal whims.
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People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist.
He set the custom of dictating bills in chancery to an amanuensis, doing it with such accuracy that a word had seldom to be changed.
And is it not needed when its taking helps us and hurts our enemy?
Thoughtful men who reverenced the safeguard known to civil judicial proceedings were appalled.
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