Edmund Burke: “But to suppose the people, contrary to their compacts, both to give away and retain the same thing is altogether absurd.”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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?

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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