On the record
So that, in effect, no deliberative capacity exists in any portion of the inhabitants.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “So that, in effect, no deliberative capacity exists in any portion of the inhabitants.”
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Burke asserts that the revolutionary climate has effectively eliminated any capacity for deliberation among the populace.
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