Such is the fantastical and unjust inequality between mass and mass, in this curious repartition of the rights of representation arising out of territory and contribution.
Edmund Burke: “Such is the fantastical and unjust inequality between mass and mass, in this curious repartition of the rights of…”
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From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke condemns the new system of representation as inherently unequal and unjust.
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