But the idea of personal representation was to triumph over Burke's representation of fixed interests; even in his time the theorists of liberalism on both sides of the Atlantic were articulating a theory of the representing of persons who have interests. In America, representation was clearly to be of persons, and interests became an inevitable evil, to be tamed by a well-constructed government. In England, Utilitarianism not only favored the representation of persons, but made interest an increasingly personal concept.