On the record
The doctrine appeared and still appears to your Committee to be totally abhorrent from the genius of circumstantial evidence, and mischievously subversive of its use.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke critiques a legal doctrine that he believes undermines the purpose of circumstantial evidence.
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