No distinction of persons or merits was observed: the peaceable and the mutinous, friends and foes, were alike involved, as if the rigor of the laws had a certain tendency to recommend the authority of the legislator.
Burke critiques the indiscriminate application of laws that fail to distinguish between peaceful and rebellious individuals.
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