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They who are excluded from votes (under proper qualifications inherent in the Constitution that gives them) are excluded, not from the state, but from the British Constitution.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They who are excluded from votes (under proper qualifications inherent in the Constitution that gives them) are…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke explains that exclusion from voting does not equate to exclusion from the state itself.
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