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" Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures. They can have no being in any other state of things ; and how can any man claim, under the conventions of civil society, rights which do not so much as suppose its existence... "
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Reflections on the French Revolution

Edmund Burke - France - 1955 - 384 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must...convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislature, judicial, or executory power, are...
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