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Necessary reformations may hereafter require, as they have frequently done in former times, limitations and abridgments, and in some cases an entire extinction, of some branch of prerogative.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke acknowledges that necessary reforms may require limitations or even the abolition of certain prerogatives.
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