On the record
We do not bring forward this book as evidence of guilt or innocence, but to show the laws and usages of the country, and to prove the prisoner's knowledge of them.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “We do not bring forward this book as evidence of guilt or innocence, but to show the laws and usages of the country, and…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke clarifies that the book presented is not to determine guilt but to illustrate the laws known to the prisoner.
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