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These men are conservators of the law; and to enable them to preserve it in its perfection, they are secured from the resentment of the sovereign: for he cannot touch them.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke explains that legal conservators in Asia are protected from sovereign retaliation, ensuring the law's integrity.
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