Edmund Burke: “Secondly, I lay it down as a rule, that the power of occasional…”

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Secondly, I lay it down as a rule, that the power of occasional incapacitation, on discretionary grounds, is a legislative power.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke defines the power of incapacitation as a legislative power that can be exercised at discretion.

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