But if such confederacies, cemented by such means, are suffered to pass without due animadversion, the authority of Parliament must become as inefficacious as all other authorities have proved to restrain the growth of disorders either in India or in Europe.
Burke warns that unchecked conspiracies can undermine parliamentary authority and lead to disorder.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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