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I hope it never will be allowed here as a reason, that what quashes an indictment in the courts below will make insufficient an impeachment brought by the Commons of Great Britain.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke expresses hope that the reasoning used in lower courts should not apply to impeachments in Parliament.
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