To cut off all appearance of connection between the crown and public justice, and to bring the whole under implicit obedience to the dictators in Paris, the old independent judicature of the Parliaments, with all its merits and all its faults, was wholly abolished.
From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke describes the abolition of the French Parliaments as a move to centralize power under the new Parisian regime.
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