When they have done so, the very same principle of necessity of human affairs to establish some other authority, which shall preserve the order of this new institution, must be obeyed, until they grow intolerable; and you shall not be suffered to plead original liberty against such an institution.
Burke explains that new authorities must be established to maintain order after a revolution until they become intolerable.
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