Charters are kept, when their purposes are maintained: they are violated, when the privilege is supported against its end and its object.
Edmund Burke: “Charters are kept, when their purposes are maintained: they are violated, when the privilege is supported against its…”
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Burke explains that charters are upheld when their intended purposes are respected.
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