It would be to plunge them back into that tumult and confusion of popular election, which, by their interposed gradation of elections, they mean to avoid, and at length to risk the whole fortune of the state with those who have the least knowledge of it and the least interest in it.
Burke warns against the dangers of reverting to direct popular elections, which could destabilize the state.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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.
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