Edmund Burke: “What was this, but to unchain the fury of rash speculation amongst a people of itself but too apt to be guided by a…”

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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?

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.