Their houses will become places of rendezvous here, as everywhere else, and centres of cabal for whatever is mischievous and malignant in this country, particularly among those of rank and fashion.
Burke warns that certain individuals will become centers of conspiracy and mischief among the elite.
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An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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