Had this plan been pursued, it was evident that the provincial assemblies, in which the Americans felt all their portion of importance, and beheld their sole image of freedom, were ipso facto annihilated.
Burke argues that a certain plan would effectively eliminate the provincial assemblies, which represented American freedom.
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