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No: though he professed to do it; it never was done: and so far from there being any regular, able, efficient constitution, you see there was an absolute and complete anarchy in the country.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that despite professing to establish a constitution, the reality was one of complete anarchy, highlighting the failure of governance.
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