Hence arose that famous scheme of the political equilibrium, or balance of power, by which is understood such a disposition of things as no power is able absolutely to predominate or to prescribe laws to others."--Book III. ch. iii. § 47.
Burke explains the concept of the balance of power as a means to prevent any single power from dominating others.
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