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The enforcement of that credit was only put into the same public judicial hands on which we depend for our lives and all that makes life dear to us.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The enforcement of that credit was only put into the same public judicial hands on which we depend for our lives and all…”
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Burke argues that the enforcement of credit should be managed by public judicial authorities to ensure fairness.
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