Edmund Burke: “This prevented the kingdom from degenerating into the worst imaginable government, a feudal aristocracy.”

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…

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.

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

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.