Hear, then, my Lords, what becomes of the records of the Company, which were to be the vouchers for every public act,--which were to show whether, in the Company's transactions, agreements, and treaties with the native powers, the public faith was kept or not.
Burke highlights the importance of records in verifying the integrity of public acts and agreements.
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They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.
But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.
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