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You cannot open your statute-book without seeing positive provisions relative to every right of the subject.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “You cannot open your statute-book without seeing positive provisions relative to every right of the subject.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that the statute book contains explicit provisions for every individual right in the subject's favor.
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