Edmund Burke: “Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”

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.

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.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…