I know, that, with you, a set of men of rank have betrayed their constituents, their honor, their trust, their king, and their country, and levelled themselves with their footmen, that through this degradation they might afterwards put themselves above their natural equals.
Burke criticizes a group of men for betraying their responsibilities and lowering their status.
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