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But these Constitutions are different both in the foundation and in the whole superstructure; and it is plain that you cannot build up the one but on the ruins of the other.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke asserts that different constitutions cannot coexist without undermining one another, emphasizing the foundational differences between them.
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