Edmund Burke: “Now a line is drawn, which may be advanced further and further at…”

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Now a line is drawn, which may be advanced further and further at pleasure, on the same argument of mere expedience on which it was first described.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke critiques the arbitrary nature of legal distinctions that can be expanded at will.

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Edmund Burke: “Now a line is drawn, which may be advanced further and further at pleasure, on the same argument of mere expedience on…”