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Who has made that law but the Regicide Republic itself, whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persians, they cannot alter or abrogate, or even so much as take into consideration?
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke critiques the inflexible nature of laws established by the Regicide Republic, likening them to the unchangeable laws of ancient Persia.
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