The future use and the whole effect, if not the very existence, of the process of an impeachment of high crimes and misdemeanors before the peers of this kingdom upon the charge of the Commons will very much be decided by your judgment in this cause.
Burke argues that the outcome of the impeachment process will shape its future significance and effectiveness.
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The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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