Hastings usurped all power, reduced the prince to a cipher, and made of his minister a mere creature of his own,--how he made the servants of the Company dependent on his own arbitrary will, and considered independence a proof of corruption.
Burke critiques Hastings for consolidating power and undermining the local governance of Oude.
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The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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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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