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Excerpt from The Trial, by Impeachment, of Henry Lord Viscount Melville: For High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Before the House of Peers, in Westminster Hall, Between the 29th of April and the 17th of May, 1806
It is, (says that distinguished member of, the legislature) the power of impeachment 'which has enabled the Commons of this country, 'at all times, to lay open the misdeeds 'of the highest servants of the crown, and to prevent or punish all inroads which may be made on the liberty of the subjects of this realm.
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