Essentially, the representative acts as the voice of those who are (literally) not present. This model was contested by Edmund Burke (1729-1797), an Irish philosopher, who also created the trustee model of representation.
Background. Mumps is an acute, self-limited, systemic viral illness characterized by the swelling of one or more of the salivary glands, typically the parotid glands. The illness is caused by the RNA virus, Rubulavirus.he mumps virus does share various epidemiologic characteristics with other well-known viral pediatric diseases, such as measles (RNA virus, of the genus Morbillivirus, in the Paramyxoviridae family) and rubella (RNA virus, of the genus Rubivirus, in the Togaviridae family). Mumps occurs worldwide.
Symptoms of mumps usually appear within two weeks of exposure to the virus. Flu-like symptoms may be the first to appear, including: 1  fatigue. 2  body aches. 3  headache. 4  loss of appetite. 5  low-grade fever.