Edmund Burke: “The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility.”

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

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.