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The person whom you call king ought not to have this power, or he ought to have more.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The person whom you call king ought not to have this power, or he ought to have more.”
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Burke discusses the problematic nature of the king's power in relation to governance.
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