On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
I must think such a government well deserved to have its excellences heightened, its faults corrected, and its capacities improved into a British Constitution.
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Edmund Burke
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In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke suggests that the pre-revolutionary French government should have been reformed by enhancing its strengths and correcting its weaknesses, ideally towards a British constitutional model.
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