Such confined and inapplicable rules would be convenient, indeed, to oppression, to extortion, bribery, and corruption, but ruinous to the people, whose protection is the true object of all tribunals and of all their rules.
Burke critiques legal rules that favor oppression over justice, emphasizing the need for protection of the people.
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