If, then, the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable,--if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains?
Burke discusses the impracticality of removing the causes of American liberty and the challenges of legal processes.
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They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.
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.
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.
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.
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