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Have we not bound it on posterity forever, though our abettors have declared that no one generation is competent to bind another?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Have we not bound it on posterity forever, though our abettors have declared that no one generation is competent to bind…”
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Burke argues against the idea that one generation can bind another regarding constitutional matters.
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