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Happily, in all good governments duties do not clash, but harmonize; and we may well suspect any pretension, whatever name it assumes, which cannot bear this touchstone.
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He asserts that true governance aligns duties rather than creating conflicts, suggesting a moral standard for evaluating pretensions of authority.
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