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It only implies a lower and degraded state of citizenship: such is (with more or less strictness) the condition of all countries in which an hereditary nobility possess the exclusive rule.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke explains that the condition of citizenship can be degraded in societies with hereditary nobility.
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