A notion of this kind, so contrary to the simplicity of the Saxon ideas of government, and to the genius of that people, who held the arts and commerce in so much contempt, must be founded on such appearances as no other explanation can account for.
Burke critiques the complexity of government ideas that contradict the straightforward nature of Saxon governance.
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An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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