The Writings and Speeches of Edmund BurkeThis 12-volume set contains the complete life works of EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), Irish political writer and statesman. Educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College in Dublin, Burke's eloquence gained him a high position in Britain's Whig party, and he was active in public life. He supported limitations on the power of the monarch and believed that the British people should have a greater say in their government. In general, Burke spoke out against the persecutions perpetuated by the British Empire on its colonies, including America, Ireland, and India. Burke's speeches and writings influenced the great thinkers of his day, including America's Founding Fathers. In Volume XI, readers will find . "Report from the Committee of the House of Commons, Appointed to Inspect the Lords' Journals in Relation to Their Proceedings on the Trial of Warren Hastings, Esq." . "Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq." |
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SPEECHES IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS | 155 |
1 | 219 |
FRIDAY MAY 30 | 227 |
TUESDAY JUNE 3 | 300 |
FOURTH DAY THURSDAY JUNE 5 | 372 |
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Page 13 - This is the reason that Judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of Parliament, because it is not to be decided by the common laws, but secundum Legem et Consuetudinem Parliamenti: and so the Judges in divers Parliaments have confessed.
Page 40 - Accordingly, on the same day, "It is declared and ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the...
Page 13 - As every court of justice," says Lord Coke, "hath laws and customs for its direction, some by the Common Law, some by the Civil and Canon Law, some by peculiar laws and customs, &c., so the High Court of Parliament suis propriis legibus et consuetudinibus subsistit.