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And if incapacity is voted to be inherent in expulsion, if expulsion be arbitrary, incapacity is arbitrary also.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “And if incapacity is voted to be inherent in expulsion, if expulsion be arbitrary, incapacity is arbitrary also.”
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Burke argues that if expulsion is arbitrary, then the resulting incapacity is also arbitrary.
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