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When prerogative, that in other governments is only used for the good of the people, is here strained to the extreme, and used to their prejudice, and the proprietaries benefit, can you perceive no difference?
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “When prerogative, that in other governments is only used for the good of the people, is here strained to the extreme…”
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Franklin highlights the misuse of prerogative for the benefit of proprietors at the expense of the people.
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