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Therefore they have laws from more sources than we have, exactly in the same order, grounded upon the same authority, fundamentally fixed to be administered to the people upon these principles.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that Mahomedan law derives from multiple sources, structured similarly to Western legal systems.
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