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Citizens have a duty to challenge the things Parliament is imposing on them

Nineteenth Century American thinker David Henry Thoreau has taught us that State institutions will sometimes forget why they exist. It is not just some individuals within those institutions.

The entire body corporate loses all sense of balance and rational focus. The institution becomes a machine without a conscience. Its role is to churn out pure injustice. It degenerates into a decadent instrument of self-serving misrule.

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