This scheme of a rota, though it enfeebles the state, considered as one solid body, and indeed wholly disables it from acting as such, gives a great, an equal, and a diffusive strength to the democratic scheme.
Burke analyzes the effects of a political rota system on the strength and functionality of the state.
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