On the record
I am of opinion, with the eminent person by whom that Report is censured, that it is necessary at this time very particularly that the authority of Judges should be preserved and supported.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke expresses the importance of maintaining judicial authority during a time of scrutiny.
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