He directly set up an independent right to administer the government according to his pleasure; and he went so far as to bottom his claim to act independently of the Court of Directors on the very statute which commanded his obedience to them.
He condemns the assertion of independent authority against the governing body as a serious breach of duty.
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By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
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