Might they not have left the jaghiredars to raise the sums required by some settlement with the bankers of Benares, in which the repayment of the money within five or six years might have been secured, and the jaghiredars have had in the mean time something to subsist upon?
Burke proposes an alternative solution for financial issues that would allow local nobility to maintain their livelihoods while repaying debts.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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