Edmund Burke Quotes About Judging
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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