Edmund Burke: “If it becomes not difference in opinion upon law, but a trial of spirit between parties, our courts of law are no longer…”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.