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Edmund Burke: “Such is the fantastical and unjust inequality between mass and mass, in this curious repartition of the rights of…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Such is the fantastical and unjust inequality between mass and mass, in this curious repartition of the rights of representation arising out of territory and contribution.
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Edmund Burke

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From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke condemns the new system of representation as inherently unequal and unjust.

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