Edmund Burke: “But examine the matter, and you will see that the prevaricating sons of violence give no relief at all, where at all it…”

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

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

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.