On the record
If the custom alleged be well founded, and be an honorable and a proper and just practice, why did he not avow it in every part and progress of our proceedings here?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke questions the integrity of a person's actions in a legal proceeding, emphasizing the importance of transparency.
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