Edmund Burke: “How came he, I say, to be so wicked a servant, that, out of sixty-eight divisions, he chose only three to supply the…”

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

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

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.