Through that diversity of members and interests, general liberty had as many securities as there were separate views in the several orders; whilst by pressing down the whole by the weight of a real monarchy, the separate parts would have been prevented from warping and starting from their allotted places.
Burke discusses how the diversity of interests in a society can protect liberty from being undermined by a monarchy.
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