Burke does not think of "interests" as shifting and personal, a mater of individual choice. He conceives of relatively few, broad, fixed, and objective interests that together make up the welfare of the whole. These interests are largely economic, and are associated with particular localities whose livelihood they characterize. He speaks of a mercantile interest, an agricultural interest, a professional interest (but recognizes also a distinct interest of Irish Catholics as a group). A locality "partakes of" or "participates in" such an interest; neither a locality nor an individual "has" an interest.