The fact that these classes have been so successful in perverting the constitution (thus amended) from an instrument avowedly securing all men's natural rights, into an authority for utterly destroying them, is a sufficient proof that no lawmaking power can be safely intrusted to any body, for any purpose whatever.
He argues that the manipulation of the Constitution by lawmakers proves that no legislative power can be trusted without accountability.
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Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.