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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.

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.

Edmund Burke
Law, Justice, Judging
"The Works of Edmund Burke, with a Memoir".

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Edmund Burke
Judging, Liberty, Civil Rights
Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics

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.

Edmund Burke
Thinking, Government, Judging
Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.321

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.

Edmund Burke
Law, Judging, Golden

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