Those who think that the judges living and dead are to be condemned, that your tribunals of justice are to be dishonored, that their acts and judgments on this business are to be rescinded,--they will undoubtedly vote against this bill, and for another sort.
Burke anticipates opposition from those who wish to uphold the integrity of the judiciary against proposed reforms.
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Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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.
Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…
Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
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