Edmund Burke: “Is this a tribunal,--the highest tribunal of all,--that which is to furnish the example for, and to be a control on all…”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.