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They have lately found a way of giving a sort of ubiquity to the supreme sovereign authority, which no monarch has been able yet to give to any representation of his.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke critiques the unprecedented way in which the supreme authority has been made omnipresent in the revolutionary government.
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