The constituent parts of the state are obliged to hold their public faith with each other, and with all those who derive any serious interest under their engagements, as much as the whole state is bound to keep its faith with separate communities. Otherwise competence and power would soon be confounded, and no law be left but the will of a prevailing power.
-Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
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