Edmund Burke: “You would not subject to the smallest fine for the smallest delinquency, upon such evidence.”

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…