"I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle."

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"I ground myself...on this principle—that if the abuse is proved, the contract is broken; and we re-enter into all our rights; that is, into the exercise of all our duties. Our own authority is indeed …"

— Edmund Burke

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