Source: Law & Liberty
by Max Skjonsberg
“The Present Discontents laid out Burke’s vision for how the relationship between MPs and constituents could be strengthened by organizational means. He stressed the responsibility of voters to pay attention to the conduct of their representatives. To this end, they should arrange meetings and establish ‘standards, for judging more systematically upon their [Members of Parliaments’] conduct.’ In order to be able to do this properly, the public needed access to division lists to see how their MPs voted. In a word, Burke believed that the relationship between voters and representatives should be a close one, and that politics needed to be transparent for this to be possible.” (01/02/25)
https://lawliberty.org/classic/burke-a-prophet-of-modern-politics/