The electors and elected throughout, especially in the rural cantons, will be frequently without any civil habitudes or connections, or any of that natural discipline which is the soul of a true republic.
Burke warns that the new French electoral system will lack the essential civil connections and natural discipline necessary for a true republic to thrive.
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