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No!--they had a due sense of the evils which might happen from such foreign rule, and more than a due sense of them.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “No!--they had a due sense of the evils which might happen from such foreign rule, and more than a due sense of them.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that the legislature was aware of the potential dangers of foreign rulers succeeding to the British throne, emphasizing national concerns.
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