They composed permanent bodies politic, constituted to resist arbitrary innovation; and from that corporate constitution, and from most of their forms, they were well calculated to afford both certainty and stability to the laws.
In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke explains how the old French Parliaments provided stability and resisted arbitrary change.
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The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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.
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?
A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.
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