Hastings sat with recorded peculation, with peculation proved upon oath on the minutes of that very Council,--he sat at the head of that Council and that board where his peculations were proved against him.
Burke asserts that Hastings was directly involved in proven acts of corruption while in a position of power.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.
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