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He takes for granted, and he gives it the name of oppression, that the person who should succeed him would take away those unlawful and wicked emoluments, and give them to some other.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the assumption that a successor would continue corrupt practices, highlighting the moral implications of such beliefs.
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