But supposing, what hardly can be supposed as a case, that the House of Commons should be composed in the same manner with the Tiers État in France,--would this dominion of chicane be borne with patience, or even conceived without horror?
Burke questions whether a House of Commons composed like the French Tiers État would be tolerated, highlighting concerns about legal manipulation.
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A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?
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