Incapacity, declared by whatever authority, stands upon two principles: first, an incapacity arising from the supposed incongruity of two duties in the commonwealth; secondly, an incapacity arising from unfitness by infirmity of nature or the criminality of conduct.
Burke outlines two principles of incapacity, focusing on the incongruity of duties and unfitness due to nature or conduct.
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