It is very much my desire to impress the Nabob with a thorough confidence in the faith and justice of our government,--that is to say, in my own, while I am at the head of it: I cannot be answerable for the acts of others independent of me.
Burke expresses his desire to instill confidence in the government while acknowledging his limitations.
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If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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