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An obedience to these laws formed the acknowledgment, instituted by yourselves, for your superiority, and was the payment you originally imposed for your protection.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that obedience to trade laws was a form of acknowledgment of British superiority, linking protection to economic compliance.
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