But I conceive too high an opinion of the Irish legislature to think that they are to their fellow-citizens what the grand oppressors of mankind were to a people whom the fortune of war had subjected to their power.
Burke believes that the Irish legislature should not be compared to historical oppressors.
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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.
If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?
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