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The question amounts to this: Whether you mean to be a legal tribunal, or an arbitrary and despotic assembly?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The question amounts to this: Whether you mean to be a legal tribunal, or an arbitrary and despotic assembly?”
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Burke poses a critical question about the nature of the assembly's authority, whether it is legal or despotic.
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