On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition, corrupting jurisprudence by destroying its simplicity.
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Edmund Burke
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From his critique of the French Revolution, this passage describes the revolutionary dismissal of traditional moral and legal categories.
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