We see the burghers of Paris, through their clubs, their mobs, and their national guards, directing you at their pleasure, and giving that as law to you, which, under your authority, is transmitted as law to us.
Burke expresses his disdain for the popular forces in Paris, arguing they dictate policy to the National Assembly.
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