I say, that, if the crown could be responsible, his Majesty,--but certainly the ministers, and even these law officers themselves, through whose hands the acts pass biennially in Ireland, or annually in the colonies, are in an habitual course of committing impeachable offences.
Burke claims that ministers and law officers are regularly committing impeachable offenses through their actions in Ireland and the colonies.
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