It is a serious thing to have a connection with a people who live only under positive, arbitrary, and changeable institutions,--and those not perfected nor supplied nor explained by any common, acknowledged rule of moral science.
Burke emphasizes the seriousness of engaging with a society governed by arbitrary laws.
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