I will show you that this debt was never contracted with the knowledge of the Company; that it had not their approbation; that they received the first intelligence of it with the utmost possible surprise, indignation, and alarm.
Burke claims that the Company was unaware of the debt's existence, highlighting a lack of transparency.
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.
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