Edmund Burke: “Their object is, that their fellow-citizens may be under the dominion of no awe, but that of their committee of…”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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

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