To this reasoning I shall join the obligations of justice and good faith, which cut off every pretext for your exercising any power or authority in this country, as long as the sovereign of it fulfils the engagements he has articled with you.
Burke argues that justice and good faith should guide the exercise of power in a foreign land.
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The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.
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