I therefore again repeat of that Asiatic government with which we are best acquainted, which has been constituted more in obedience to the laws of Mahomet than any other, that the sovereign cannot, agreeably to that constitution, exercise any arbitrary power whatever.
Burke asserts that the sovereign under the Mahomedan constitution cannot exercise arbitrary power.
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