My Lords, no authority of the East will be a palliation of the breach of laws enacted in the West: and to those laws of the West, and not the vicious customs of the East, we insist upon making Mr.
Burke asserts that Eastern customs cannot justify violations of Western laws.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.
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