---
title: "1 Conduct Public Quotes By Bernard Bailyn"
description: "1 Conduct Public quotes by Bernard Bailyn. Plus more from Bernard Bailyn and more Conduct Public sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/bernard-bailyn-20777_acting_in-effect-the-people-were-present-throug_1007256.jpg"
---

> [In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/in-effect-the-people-were-present-through-their-representatives-and/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/bernard-bailyn-20777_acting_in-effect-the-people-were-present-throug_1007256.jpg)

## More by Bernard Bailyn

> [In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/in-england-the-practice-of-virtual-representation-provided-reasonably/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/instantly-available-without-continuous-presence-is-probably-the-best/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/for-the-primary-goal-of-the-american-revolution-which-transferred/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/the-theory-of-politics-that-emerges-from-the-political-literature-of/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/the-idea-of-sovereignty-current-in-the-english-speaking-world-of-the/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [“Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/power-always-and-everywhere-had-had-a-pernicious-corrupting-effect/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/in-effect-the-people-were-present-through-their-representatives-and/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/the-wielders-of-power-did-not-speak-for-it-nor-did-they-naturally/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/defiance-to-constituted-authority-leaped-like-a-spark-from-one/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/whatever-deficiencies-the-leaders-of-the-american-revolution-may-have/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/the-classics-of-the-ancient-world-are-everywhere-in-the-literature-of/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/incorporating-in-their-colorful-slashing-superbly-readable-pages-the/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/the-full-bibliography-of-pamphlets-relating-to-the-anglo-american/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/everyone-knew-that-democracy-direct-rule-by-all-the-people-required/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

> [What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/what-americans-were-really-objecting-to-had-nothing-to-do-with/)

[Bernard Bailyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-bailyn/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conduct-public/bernard-bailyn/#itemlist",
            "name": "1 Conduct Public Quotes By Bernard Bailyn",
            "numberOfItems": 1,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Bernard Bailyn"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-bailyn/in-effect-the-people-were-present-through-their-representatives-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/bernard-bailyn-20777_acting_in-effect-the-people-were-present-throug_1007256.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/bernard-bailyn-20777_acting_in-effect-the-people-were-present-throug_1007256.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/bernard-bailyn-20777_acting_in-effect-the-people-were-present-throug_1007256.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point…” — Bernard Bailyn",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conduct-public/bernard-bailyn/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conduct-public/bernard-bailyn/",
            "name": "Conduct Public Quotes by Bernard Bailyn",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conduct-public/bernard-bailyn/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/bernard-bailyn-20777_acting_in-effect-the-people-were-present-throug_1007256.jpg"
            },
            "description": "1 Conduct Public quotes by Bernard Bailyn. Plus more from Bernard Bailyn and more Conduct Public sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conduct-public/bernard-bailyn/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conduct-public/bernard-bailyn/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Conduct Public",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conduct-public/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Bernard Bailyn",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conduct-public/bernard-bailyn/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```