If the prince, attacking the fundamental laws, gives his subjects a legal right to resist him, if tyranny, becoming insupportable, obliges the nation to rise in their defence, every foreign power has a right to succor an oppressed people who implore their assistance.
Burke discusses the right of foreign powers to assist oppressed nations when tyranny becomes unbearable.
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