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To counteract the alarm given by the progress of Jacobin arms and principles, he endeavored to excite an opposite alarm concerning the growth of the power of the crown.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke highlights the strategy of creating fear about the crown's power to counteract fears of Jacobinism.
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