Their object is to point out the deficiencies in the system, by which restrictions were laid that could have little or no effect whilst want and power were suffered to be united.
Edmund Burke: “Their object is to point out the deficiencies in the system, by which restrictions were laid that could have little or…”
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Burke highlights the deficiencies in a system where restrictions fail to address the union of want and power.
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