These essential innovations tend, as your Committee conceives, to make an entire alteration in the constitution and in the purposes of the High Court of Parliament, and even to reverse the ancient relations between the Lords and the Judges.
Burke warns that certain innovations could fundamentally change the constitution and the relationship between the Lords and Judges.
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