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If more than this is done, then they annihilate the direction which they pretend to support; and they augment the influence of the crown, of whose growth they affect so great an horror.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke warns that exceeding certain limits in governance will only strengthen the crown's influence, which he opposes.
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