Of this there are no traces in your Constitution; and in providing nothing of this kind, your Solons and Numas have, as much as in anything else, discovered a sovereign incapacity.
Burke condemns the French revolutionaries for their failure to include a vital deliberative body in their constitution, revealing their incompetence.
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