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For, in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the efforts to deny Americans their rights by undermining the principles that uphold freedom in Britain.
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