Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the - TopicsExpress



          

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is a literal fact [that] Literature is our Parliament too. Printing is equivalent to Democracy. Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in law-making, in all acts of authority. The nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation. (Carlyle, 1888 [1841]: 349–50).
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:50:07 +0000

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