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Harold J. Laski: Broadly, that is to say, Burke would not realize that the reign of political privilege was drawing to its close.

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Broadly, that is to say, Burke would not realize that the reign of political privilege was drawing to its close.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski discusses Burke's inability to see the decline of political privilege in his time.

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