Edmund Burke: “Nor is there one word of arbitrary power in it, much less of that…”

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Nor is there one word of arbitrary power in it, much less of that arbitrary power which Mr.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that the Institutions of Tamerlane contain no mention of arbitrary power.

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Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

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They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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