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Speech to the Electors of Bristol (3 November 1774)

Edmund Burke · The Founders' Constitution, University of Chicago Press · 1774

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TheoryBernard Manin argued that modern representative government deliberately chose election over lot and that election has an aristocratic character, since it selects candidates judged superior and so tends to produce a distinct political elite.