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Edmund Burke: “I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, whose Parliamentary trust he has…”

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I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, whose Parliamentary trust he has betrayed.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke states that Hastings has betrayed the trust of the Commons of Great Britain.

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