If any one can doubt that that transaction was in itself corrupt, I can only say that his mind must be constituted in a manner totally different from that which prevails in any of the higher or lower branches of judicature in any country in the world.
Burke asserts that any doubt about the corrupt nature of a transaction indicates a fundamentally different moral perspective.
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