On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
They were the great security to private property; which might be said (when personal liberty had no existence) to be, in fact, as well guarded in France as in any other country.
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Edmund Burke
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In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke argues that the old French Parliaments were crucial for protecting private property.
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