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Edmund Burke: “No part of his official conduct can be defended on the ground of his Parliamentary information.”

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No part of his official conduct can be defended on the ground of his Parliamentary information.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that the official actions of a certain individual cannot be justified based on the information provided in Parliament.

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