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Are compensations to be made or a maintenance decreed to those whom they have robbed of their freehold in their office or expelled from their profession?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Are compensations to be made or a maintenance decreed to those whom they have robbed of their freehold in their office…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke questions the justice of compensating those who have been unjustly removed from their positions.
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