In the foregoing book we considered these laws in a very simple point of view, and in a very general one,--merely as a system of hardship imposed on the body of the community; and from thence, and from some other arguments, inferred the general injustice of such a procedure.
Burke reflects on the injustices imposed by laws that burden the community.
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