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Edmund Burke: “That discretion, which in judicature is well said by Lord Coke to be a crooked cord, in legislature is a golden rule.”

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That discretion, which in judicature is well said by Lord Coke to be a crooked cord, in legislature is a golden rule.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke cites Lord Coke to illustrate the importance of discretion in legislative processes.

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