Those societies would have been infinitely strengthened and multiplied in every quarter; their dangerous foreign communications would have been left broad and open; the crown would not have been authorized to take any measure whatever for our immediate defence by sea or land.
Burke argues that the unchecked growth of Jacobin societies would jeopardize national security and the crown's ability to defend the nation.
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