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Page 6
... and not the moral qualities of human action , the rule of your justice . These
strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the unhappiness of
civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion really and truly
...
... and not the moral qualities of human action , the rule of your justice . These
strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the unhappiness of
civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion really and truly
...
Page 7
These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and enlighten
law by the liberality of legislative reason , than to fetter and bind their higher
capacity by the narrow constructions of subordinate , artificial justice . If we had ...
These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and enlighten
law by the liberality of legislative reason , than to fetter and bind their higher
capacity by the narrow constructions of subordinate , artificial justice . If we had ...
Page 8
It is the obnoxious and the suspected who want the protection of law ; and there
is nothing to bridle the partial violence of state factions , but this ; “ that whenever
an act is made for a cessation of law and justice , the whole people should be ...
It is the obnoxious and the suspected who want the protection of law ; and there
is nothing to bridle the partial violence of state factions , but this ; “ that whenever
an act is made for a cessation of law and justice , the whole people should be ...
Page 9
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 progress through the House ; because it would ...
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 progress through the House ; because it would ...
Page 11
As hostility and law are not very concordant ideas , every step we have taken in
this business has been made by trampling on some maxim of justice , or some
capital principle of wise government . What precedents were established , and
what ...
As hostility and law are not very concordant ideas , every step we have taken in
this business has been made by trampling on some maxim of justice , or some
capital principle of wise government . What precedents were established , and
what ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1864 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
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