The republic of Paris will endeavor, indeed, to complete the debauchery of the army, and illegally to perpetuate the Assembly, without resort to its constituents, as the means of continuing its despotism.
Burke warns that the republic of Paris will attempt to maintain its power through manipulation and without accountability.
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