On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
This principle ought even to be more strongly impressed upon the minds of those who compose the collective sovereignty than upon those of single princes.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke argues that the principle of power as a trust, accountable to a higher authority, is even more crucial for collective bodies than for individual monarchs.
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