The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... crown . They are therefore to be detained in prison , under the criminal description of piracy , to a future trial and ignominious punishment , whenever cir- cumstances shall make it convenient to execute vengeance on them , under the ...
... crown . They are therefore to be detained in prison , under the criminal description of piracy , to a future trial and ignominious punishment , whenever cir- cumstances shall make it convenient to execute vengeance on them , under the ...
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... crown with their con- struction of that act in a formal address , wherein they entreated his Majesty to cause persons , charged with high treason in America , to be brought into this kingdom for trial : By this act of Henry the Eighth ...
... crown with their con- struction of that act in a formal address , wherein they entreated his Majesty to cause persons , charged with high treason in America , to be brought into this kingdom for trial : By this act of Henry the Eighth ...
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... crown , there must be , under that authority , tribunals in the country itself , fully competent to administer justice on all offenders . But if there are not , and that we must suppose a thing so humiliating to our government , as at ...
... crown , there must be , under that authority , tribunals in the country itself , fully competent to administer justice on all offenders . But if there are not , and that we must suppose a thing so humiliating to our government , as at ...
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... crown puts him out of the law . It is even by no means clear to me , whether the negative proof does not lie upon the person apprehended on suspicion , to the subversion of all justice . I have not debated against this bill in its ...
... crown puts him out of the law . It is even by no means clear to me , whether the negative proof does not lie upon the person apprehended on suspicion , to the subversion of all justice . I have not debated against this bill in its ...
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... crown . Poorly as I may be thought af- fected to the authority of parliament , I shall never admit that our constitutional rights can ever become a matter of ministerial negotiation . I am charged with being an American . If warm ...
... crown . Poorly as I may be thought af- fected to the authority of parliament , I shall never admit that our constitutional rights can ever become a matter of ministerial negotiation . I am charged with being an American . If warm ...
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