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All the former correctives, whether of virtue or of weakness, which existed in the old monarchy, are gone.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “All the former correctives, whether of virtue or of weakness, which existed in the old monarchy, are gone.”
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Burke laments the loss of corrective measures that existed in the old monarchy, suggesting a decline in moral and institutional checks.
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