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Did Edmund Burke write Thoughts of the Cause of the Present Discontents?

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At a time when political allegiances were based largely on family connections and patronage and political opposition was generally regarded as factionalism, Burke, in his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), became the first political ...

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