But its own contracts are not subject to it: it is subject to them; and the compact of the king acting constitutionally was the compact of the nation.
Edmund Burke: “But its own contracts are not subject to it: it is subject to them; and the compact of the king acting constitutionally…”
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Burke discusses the relationship between the king's actions and the nation's constitutional framework.
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