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1821 July 26 First Lines Constitutional
1821 July 26

First Lines

Constitutional Monarchy

Monarch hates & contemns subjects

By men, whose interest is diametrically and unalterably opposed to theirs to whom they are constantly and universally and irremediably /unalterably/ objects of contempt and hatred how long will a people, having any pretence to the title of rational /attribute of rationality/ endure to be governed? This question - at what time, on what occasion, should it ever be out of mind?
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