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Edmund Burke: “If ever there was a time favorable for establishing the principle that a king of popular choice was the only legal king…”

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If ever there was a time favorable for establishing the principle that a king of popular choice was the only legal king, without all doubt it was at the Revolution.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke reflects on the missed opportunity during the Revolution to establish a principle of popular choice for kings.

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