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Edmund Burke: I trust I shall hardly be told, in palliation of this shameful system of politics, that the author expresses his…

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I trust I shall hardly be told, in palliation of this shameful system of politics, that the author expresses his sentiments only as doubts.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke challenges the justification of a political system based on doubts expressed by its author.

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