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Edmund Burke: “I shall be content to be brought to shame before your Lordships, if the prisoner at your bar can show me one passage…”

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I shall be content to be brought to shame before your Lordships, if the prisoner at your bar can show me one passage where the assumption of arbitrary power is even hinted at by this great conqueror.
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Edmund Burke

Editor's note · Context

Burke challenges the notion of arbitrary power by demanding evidence from the prosecution.

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