Neither have they left any principle by which any of their municipalities can be bound to obedience,--or even conscientiously obliged not to separate from the whole, to become independent, or to connect itself with some other state.
From his critique of the French Revolution, Burke argues the new government lacks principles to ensure the loyalty and unity of its constituent parts.
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But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
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