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How comes it that in all the state prosecutions of magnitude, from the Revolution to within these two or three years, the crown has scarcely ever retired disgraced and defeated from its courts?
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke questions the crown's consistent success in state prosecutions, suggesting a troubling trend.
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