No one can imagine, then, an exclusion of a great body of men, not from favors, privileges, and trusts, but from the common advantages of society, can ever be a thing intended for their good, or can ever be ratified by any implied consent of theirs.
Burke contends that excluding a large group from societal benefits cannot be justified as being for their good.
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Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
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