On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.”
Editor's note · Context
In his critique of the French Revolution, this sentence identifies a fundamental flaw he attributes to democratic republics.
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