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It is wholly artificial, and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It is wholly artificial, and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement.”
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Burke describes the concept of a people as an artificial construct created by mutual agreement.
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