Therefore he was resolved,--your Lordships will remark the whole of this most daring and systematic plan of bribery and peculation,--he resolved to put it out of the power of his Council in future to check or control him in any of his evil practices.
Burke critiques the corrupt practices of a governor-general, emphasizing the systematic nature of bribery.
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As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
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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