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How Conservatism Lost The Plot And Privatized Virtue

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What Did America Take From Burke?

The american constitution is a restoration of much of the english constitution. It includes a unitary executive vested in one person, and which is responsible for taxation and for legislation. There there's aaExecutive to tis a jury trial, which in those days was considered to be part of the democratic participation in the English constitution. And that system is to a very large extent, what the American federalists took from england when they wrote their constitutions.

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