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But who are to choose this well-regulated and reforming Court of Directors?--Why, the very Proprietors who are excluded from all management, for the abuse of their power.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke questions the legitimacy of the Proprietors in choosing the Directors given their exclusion from management.
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