They have gone beyond even this: for every barrister, six clerk, attorney, or solicitor, is obliged to take a solemn oath not to employ persons of that persuasion,--no, not as hackney clerks, at the miserable salary of seven shillings a week.
Burke criticizes the requirement for legal professionals to avoid employing Catholics, reflecting societal discrimination.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
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