And thus he has acted in a government of which he himself declares the nature to be such that it is almost impossible so to detect misconduct as to give legal evidence of it, though a man should be declared by the cries of the whole people to be guilty.
Burke discusses the challenges of proving misconduct in a flawed governmental system, despite public outcry.
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