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They exercise, within the limits of their jurisdiction, the powers of life and death, and decisions in civil and other cases, in the same extent as the sovereign at the capital.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes the extensive powers held by local rulers, equating their authority to that of the sovereign.
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