The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... He first asserts , that he was possessed of an arbitrary and despotick power , restrained by no laws but his own will . He next says , that " the " rights E 2 66 " rights of the people he governed in India are OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 51.
... He first asserts , that he was possessed of an arbitrary and despotick power , restrained by no laws but his own will . He next says , that " the " rights E 2 66 " rights of the people he governed in India are OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 51.
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... Hall , in presence of all the Judges of the land , who are to execute the law , and of the House of Lords , who are bound as its guardians not not to suffer the words " arbitrary power , ". 52 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT.
... Hall , in presence of all the Judges of the land , who are to execute the law , and of the House of Lords , who are bound as its guardians not not to suffer the words " arbitrary power , ". 52 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT.
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Edmund Burke. not to suffer the words " arbitrary power , " to be mentioned before them . For I am not again to tell your Lordships , that arbitrary power is treason in the law ; that to mention it with law , is to commit a contradiction ...
Edmund Burke. not to suffer the words " arbitrary power , " to be mentioned before them . For I am not again to tell your Lordships , that arbitrary power is treason in the law ; that to mention it with law , is to commit a contradiction ...
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... arbitrary power . To " all this I strongly alluded in the minutes I " delivered in Council , when the treaty with " the new Vizier was on foot in 1775 ; and I " wished to make Cheyt Sing independent , be- 66 cause in India dependence ...
... arbitrary power . To " all this I strongly alluded in the minutes I " delivered in Council , when the treaty with " the new Vizier was on foot in 1775 ; and I " wished to make Cheyt Sing independent , be- 66 cause in India dependence ...
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Edmund Burke. and the constitution of that empire , is , he says , arbitrary power . know whether any Act of Parliament bound him not to exercise this arbitrary power ; and that if any such Act should in future be made , it would be ...
Edmund Burke. and the constitution of that empire , is , he says , arbitrary power . know whether any Act of Parliament bound him not to exercise this arbitrary power ; and that if any such Act should in future be made , it would be ...
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