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Edmund Burke: This right the nation hath asserted, and recovered out of the hands of those who had dispossessed them of it at several…

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This right the nation hath asserted, and recovered out of the hands of those who had dispossessed them of it at several times.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke claims that the nation has successfully reclaimed its rights from those who had taken them away.

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