On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It is this resolution to break their country into separate republics which has driven them into the greatest number of their difficulties and contradictions.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke identifies the revolutionaries' intent to fragment France into republics as a source of their problems.
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