On the record
It is the use, virtue, and efficacy of Parliamentary judicial procedure, that it puts an end to this dominion of faction, intrigue, cabal, and clandestine intelligences.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It is the use, virtue, and efficacy of Parliamentary judicial procedure, that it puts an end to this dominion of…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke highlights the importance of Parliamentary judicial procedures in combating corruption and factionalism.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Jan 1, 1790
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
Jan 1, 1790
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
Jan 1, 1790
Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…
Jan 1, 1790
They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.
Other voices in this conversation
