If I am right in this notion, then labor must be subject to all the laws and principles of trade, and not to regulations foreign to them, and that may be totally inconsistent with those principles and those laws.
Here, Burke asserts that labor should be governed by market principles rather than arbitrary regulations that could disrupt its natural laws.
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Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.
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