Tha House of Commons and the National Representation in the Early Nineteenth Century

该项目通过检查1803年5月1日或1815年3月1日的国会议员的传记数据，来考虑英国国会议员在多大程度上是国家代表。1803年和1815年的平均任期议员数分别为1.78名和1.88名。将这些数据与1725年、1746年、1767年和1787年的数据进行比较（见青木，“18世纪国会议员及其与选区的关系：定量政治史研究”，《议会、地产和代表制》，1998年第18卷），国会议员在19世纪早期变得更倾向于迁移。可以解释为，他们更愿意担任国家代表。其他数据并没有指向同样的结论。与18世纪后期相比，19世纪初迁往其他县选区的国会议员并没有增加。英格兰国家或开放自治市镇的议员仍然不愿在王室之下担任公职。可以暂时得出结论，19世纪初的下议院并没有成为一个真正的国家代表院。

The project considers how far the British members of parliament were national representatives by examining bioglaphical data of the members of parliament who sat on 1^<st> May 1803 or 1^<st> March 1815. Their average career numbers of constituencies are 1.78 for the year 1803 and 1.88 for 1815. Comparing these figures with those for 1725, 1746, 1767 and 1787(See Aoki, "Members of parliament and their connections to constituencies in the eighteenth century : a study in quantitative political history," Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Vol.18, 1998), members of parliament became more inclined to move in the early nineteenth century. It may be interpreted that they were better prepared to act as a national representative.Other data did not point to the same couclusion. Members of parliament moving to constituencies in other counties did not increase in the early nineteenth century in comparison with the late eighteenth century. Members for English countries or open boroughs still shrank from taking the office under the crown.It is provisionally concluded that the house of commons in the early nineteenth century had not become a house of truly national representatives.