The second object, in this part of the plan, of the act of 1773, namely, that of inspection by the ministers of the crown, appears not to have been provided for, so as to draw the timely and productive attention of the state on the grievances of the people of India, and on the abuses of its government.
Burke critiques the 1773 act for failing to ensure timely oversight of grievances in India, pointing to a lack of governmental attention.
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The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
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