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The grand policy of all their regulations was to render it almost impracticable for any future sovereign to compel the states of the kingdom to have again recourse to those violent remedies.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes the intention behind regulations to prevent future monarchs from resorting to violent measures.
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