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Edmund Burke: Is our monarchy to be annihilated, with all the laws, all the tribunals, and all the ancient corporations of the…

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Is our monarchy to be annihilated, with all the laws, all the tribunals, and all the ancient corporations of the kingdom?
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Edmund Burke

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Burke raises concerns about the potential abolition of monarchy and its institutions.

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