Edmund Burke: “The preamble of this law, standing as it now stands, has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act…”

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

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

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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