On the record
One of these bodies was to possess all the franchises, all the property, all the education: the other was to be composed of drawers of water and cutters of turf for them.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke describes a stark contrast between the privileged and the laboring classes in society.
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