On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Have these gentlemen never heard, in the whole circle of the worlds of theory and practice, of anything between the despotism of the monarch and the despotism of the multitude?
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Edmund Burke
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From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke questions the revolutionaries' limited view of governmental forms.
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