On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
We are resolved to keep an established church, an established monarchy, an established aristocracy, and an established democracy, each in the degree it exists, and in no greater.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke articulates the English commitment to maintaining their established church, monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, each in its existing proportion.
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