Edmund Burke: “But every other nation will think we shall abuse it.”

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.