This rule, in fact, would not only have left to the faction in France all the property and power they had usurped at home, but most, if not all, of the conquests which by their atrocious perfidy and violence they had made abroad.
Burke condemns a proposed rule that would allow the French faction to retain power and conquests.
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Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.
If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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