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Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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Government and Legislation.
If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?
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Chicago: Edmund Burke, "Government and Legislation.," Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke in Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Original Sources, accessed November 10, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UWNL2SZJL4EH4BI.
MLA: Burke, Edmund. "Government and Legislation." Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke, in Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke, Original Sources. 10 Nov. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UWNL2SZJL4EH4BI.
Harvard: Burke, E, 'Government and Legislation.' in Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. cited in , Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. Original Sources, retrieved 10 November 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UWNL2SZJL4EH4BI.
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