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She would limit her corporate powers, on the contrary, and she would oppose her fundamental principles, if she were to deny herself the prudential exercise of such capacity of reformation.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that denying the Church's capacity for reformation would contradict its fundamental principles.
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