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No single new corrective is to be found in the whole body of the new institutions.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “No single new corrective is to be found in the whole body of the new institutions.”
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Burke critiques the new institutions for lacking any new corrective measures to address societal issues.
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