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Speaker, is a precious mockery:--a preamble without an act,--taxes granted in order to be repealed,--and the reasons of the grant still carefully kept up!
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the absurdity of a preamble that lacks a corresponding act, highlighting the contradictions in governance.
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