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That artificial representation of the people being once discredited and overturned, all goes to pieces, and nothing but a plain French democracy or arbitrary monarchy can possibly exist.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that dismantling the established representation of the people would lead to either a chaotic democracy or a tyrannical monarchy.
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