Edmund Burke: “They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable.”

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

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.