I think no stable and useful advantages were ever made by the money got at elections by the voter, but all he gets is doubly lost to the public: it is money given to diminish the general stock of the community, which is in the industry of the subject.
Burke argues that money gained through elections ultimately harms the public good.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.
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