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These principalities are so far from contributing to the ease of the king, to his wealth, or his dignity, that they render both his supreme and his subordinate authority perfectly ridiculous.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that certain principalities undermine the authority and dignity of the monarchy, suggesting a critique of ineffective governance.
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