This law seems, therefore, to me to go directly against the fundamental points of the legislative and judicial constitution of these kingdoms, and against the happy communion of their privileges.
Burke argues that a specific law undermines the legislative and judicial foundations of the kingdoms involved.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
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