Each deputy to the Assembly would be the representative of France, and of all its descriptions, of the many and of the few, of the rich and of the poor, of the great districts and of the small.
Burke articulates his vision for comprehensive national representation, where each deputy serves all segments of society.
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To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.
Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
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