My Lords, great and powerful as the House of Commons is, (and great and powerful I hope it always will remain,) yet we cannot be insensible to the effects produced by the introduction of forty millions of money into this country from India.
Burke acknowledges the significant impact of wealth from India on British society and politics.
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The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.
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