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The Protestants of Ireland are not alone sufficiently the people to form a democracy; and they are too numerous to answer the ends and purposes of an aristocracy.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke points out the inadequacy of the Protestant population in Ireland to form a true democracy or aristocracy.
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