Edmund Burke: “The supreme power, being in ordinary cases the ultimate judge, can, as we conceive, suffer nothing in having any part of…”

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.

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

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

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