On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.”
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In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke asserts that the judiciary should be constituted as if it were separate from the state itself.
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