Perhaps you will imagine that the man who avows these principles of arbitrary government, and pleads them as the justification of acts which nothing else can justify, is of opinion that they are on the whole good for the people over whom they are exercised.
Burke critiques the justification of arbitrary government by those in power.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
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