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It seems as if the preëminence of regicide was acknowledged,--and that kings tacitly ranked themselves below their sacrilegious murderers, as natural magistrates and judges over them.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke reflects on the troubling acknowledgment of regicide as a form of authority over kings.
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