The constitution that Burke called upon men to worship was the constitution which made the Duke of Bedford powerful, that gave no representation to Manchester and a member to Old Sarum, which enacted the game laws and left upon the statute-book a penal code which hardly yielded to the noble attack of Romilly.
Laski criticizes the constitution that Burke revered for its inequities and lack of representation.
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Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
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