“ Men, with them, are strictly equal and are entitled to equal rights in their own government. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | government right |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
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“quite so smoothly as they had done in the field of their geometry. Here
their arithmetic came to bear upon their juridical metaphysics. Had they
stuck to their metaphysic principles, the arithmetical process would be
simple indeed. Men, with them, are strictly equal and are entitled to equal
rights in their own government. Each head, on this system, would have its
vote, and every man would vote directly for the person who was to represent
him in the legislature. "But soft -- by regular degrees, not yet". This
metaphysic principle to which law, custom, usage, policy, reason were to”
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