Edmund Burke: “We lament that Cheyt Sing has so long been a wanderer, while the man who drove him from his dominions is still…”

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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