Seldom is the title or preamble of the law of the same import with the body and enacting part; but they generally place some other color uppermost, which differs from that which is afterwards to appear, or at least one that is several shades fainter.
Burke notes the discrepancy between the titles of laws and their actual content, suggesting deception.
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