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His grants were from the aggregate and consolidated funds of judgments iniquitously legal, and from possessions voluntarily surrendered by the lawful proprietors with the gibbet at their door.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the legitimacy of grants derived from unjust judgments and coercion.
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