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Every individual must have a right to originate what afterwards is to become the act of the majority.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Every individual must have a right to originate what afterwards is to become the act of the majority.”
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Burke asserts that every individual has the right to propose actions that may later be accepted by the majority.
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