By depressing the one and by raising the other they hope in the first place to increase his treasures and his army; and with these common instruments of royal power they flatter him that the democracy, which they help in his name to create, will give him but little trouble.
Burke explains how manipulating social classes can be a misguided strategy for increasing power.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
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