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You see that it was the monarchy that was precarious, not the rights of the subordinate chiefs.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “You see that it was the monarchy that was precarious, not the rights of the subordinate chiefs.”
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Burke argues that the stability of the monarchy was less certain than the established rights of local chiefs.
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