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Speech on Reform of Representation (1782)

Edmund Burke DAVID BROMWICH

On Empire, Liberty, and Reform, 1901, p.268

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Speech on Reform of Representation (1782)
Autor: Edmund Burke
DAVID BROMWICH
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É parte de: On Empire, Liberty, and Reform, 1901, p.268
Descrição: Burke had played an equivocal part in the agitations for Wilkes and Liberty in the late 17605, denouncing the government for the stratagems by which it kept Wilkes out of the House of Commons, disclaiming association with the popular sentiment that backed him, and running interference between the Rockingham party and Wilkes himself. His position was delicate: the popular enthusiasm that massed with Wilkes was an undesirable force in representative government, yet the ministry’s efforts to nullify his election, to prosecute and to unseat him, were plainly an even greater danger to constitutional balance. The Rockingham party manifesto of 1770,
Editor: Yale University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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