Edmund Burke: “We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable.”

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

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

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.