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They damn it in the mass, by declaring "that it does not arise out of the inherent rights of the people, as the National Assembly does in France, and whose name designates its original.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke criticizes the dismissal of a political entity by claiming it lacks the inherent rights of the people.
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