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Edmund Burke: You find that in Oude, the very appearance of justice had been banished out of it, and that every aumil exercised an…

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You find that in Oude, the very appearance of justice had been banished out of it, and that every aumil exercised an arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the people.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke notes the absence of justice and the arbitrary power exercised over the populace.

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