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We are, therefore, neither guilty of the precedent crime of colluding with the criminal, nor the subsequent indecorum of prosecuting what we had virtually and practically approved.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke defends the Commons by stating they are not guilty of collusion or indecorum in their actions.
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