It is through the power of Paris, now become the centre and focus of jobbing, that the leaders of this faction direct, or rather command, the whole legislative and the whole executive government.
In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke asserts that the leaders of the revolutionary faction command the entire government through the centralized power of Paris, which he describes as a hub of corruption.
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