Edmund Burke: “If we lose the profit, let us get rid of the odium.”

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

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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.

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