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Edmund Burke: “As I do not think these opinions of the judges to be agreeable to those principles, I wish to take the only method in…”

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As I do not think these opinions of the judges to be agreeable to those principles, I wish to take the only method in which they can or ought to be corrected,--by bill.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke expresses his intention to correct judicial opinions he finds disagreeable through legislative means.

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