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We do not here forget the maxim established in our preliminaries, that it does not belong to nations to usurp the power of being judges of each other.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “We do not here forget the maxim established in our preliminaries, that it does not belong to nations to usurp the power…”
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Burke highlights the principle that nations should not assume the role of judges over one another.
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