Try whether his ambition or his avarice have justled him out of the straight line of duty,--or whether that grand foe of the offices of active life, that master vice in men of business, a degenerate and inglorious sloth, has made him flag and languish in his course.
This passage encourages scrutiny of a member's motivations to ensure they align with their duties.
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No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
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.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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