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We have shown you how greatly the former were diminished, and in what manner the latter were reduced to the worst of all bad states, a state of subserviency to the will of the Governor-General.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke discusses the detrimental impact of oppression on public servants and their subservience to authority.
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