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    [6] [6] Edmund Burke, 'Speech on Opening of Impeachment', 15?February?1788,...suiteTherefore, alongside the specific charges against Hastings, was a larger interest in securing 'some method of governing India well, which will not of necessity become the means of governing Great Britain ill'.[7] [7] Edmund Burke, "Speech on Fox's India Bill," 1?December?1873,... lacoste pas cher
    suiteFor Burke, the East India Company (EIC) wrested sovereign power by extraordinary and unjust means, yet its chief error lie not in this 'revolution' but in its inability to secure stable and lawful governance. Instead, conquest was followed by yet more revolutions that subverted any semblance of the rule of law; undermined native rights, liberties, and industry; and thus laid to waste a once prospering society.[8] [8] E. Burke, "Speech on Opening of Impeachment," 15?February?1788,...suiteBurke's linking of the question of legitimacy to the securing of lawful institutions set the stage for the succeeding generation of reformist arguments - such as those of James Mill and Charles Grant - that likewise rested the moral basis of Empire on the attainment of good government. sac vanessa bruno cuir pas cher However, the definition of good government, its structure and purpose, varied dramatically between Burke and the liberal reformers to come.9 For Burke, to govern India well required, firstly, constitutional reform, the creation of institutional checks to reign in what he saw as the 'peculating despotism' of Hastings and EIC rule. Burke's institutional solution was Fox's East India Bill (1783), which attempted to subject the EIC more tightly to Parliamentary oversight. Burke hoped this enhanced accountability would convert EIC rule into a true government or trust oriented towards the welfare of those over whom power is exercised and based on the implicit consent of the subject people.[9] [9] E. Burke, "Speech on Fox's East India Bill", op. cit. sac vanessa bruno lune
    ,...suiteFor Burke, securing such consent required governing Indian subjects 'upon their own principles and maxims and not upon ours… we must not think to force them to our narrow ideas, but extend ours to take in theirs'.[10] [10] E. Burke, "Speech on Opening of Impeachment," 15?February?1788,

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