But the ground for a legislative alteration of a legal establishment is this, and this only,--that you find the inclinations of the majority of the people, concurring with your own sense of the intolerable nature of the abuse, are in favor of a change.
Burke states that legislative changes should reflect the majority's sentiments against abuses.
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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.
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.
The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
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