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Edmund Burke: But what will you feel, when you know from history how this statute passed, and what were the motives, and what the mode…

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But what will you feel, when you know from history how this statute passed, and what were the motives, and what the mode of making it?
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Edmund Burke

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Burke anticipates that revealing the historical context of the statute will provoke a strong reaction.

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