Edmund Burke: “But as he executes whatever he proposes as Governor-General, he is solely responsible for the nature of the acts…”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.