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There were other provisions made in the Great Charter that went deeper than the feudal tenure, and affected the whole body of the civil government.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “There were other provisions made in the Great Charter that went deeper than the feudal tenure, and affected the whole…”
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Burke notes that the Great Charter included provisions affecting civil governance beyond feudal tenure.
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