Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Nonfiction, History, British
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Author: Edmund Burke ISBN: 9781411446731
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publication: March 15, 2011
Imprint: Barnes & Noble Language: English
Author: Edmund Burke
ISBN: 9781411446731
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication: March 15, 2011
Imprint: Barnes & Noble
Language: English

The immediate cause of this 1770 tract was the violent controversy surrounding a radical member of parliament, John Wilkes, but Burke's commentary transcended this subject to grapple with more enduring questions of the proper apportionment of power, under the spirit of the British constitution, between king and parliament. 

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The immediate cause of this 1770 tract was the violent controversy surrounding a radical member of parliament, John Wilkes, but Burke's commentary transcended this subject to grapple with more enduring questions of the proper apportionment of power, under the spirit of the British constitution, between king and parliament. 

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