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1894. COURTS (French Plenary), Composition of.—[continued].

Two innovations must
be fundamentally condemned: the abolishing,
in so great a degree, of the parliaments, and
the substitution of so ill-composed a body as
the Cour Pleniere. If the King has power to
do this, the government of this country is a
pure despotism.—
To Mr. Cutting. Washington ed. ii, 438.
(P. July. 1788)