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But I trust and hope your Lordships will not judge by laws and institutions which you do not know, against those laws and institutions which you do know, and under whose power and authority Mr.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke urges the Lords to judge actions based on familiar laws rather than unknown foreign ones.
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