Those who give to others such rights perform acts that are void as they are given,--good indeed and valid only as tending to subject themselves, and those who act with them, to the Divine displeasure; because morally there can be no such power.
Burke warns that granting rights to others that are inherently void leads to moral consequences and divine displeasure.
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