Edmund Burke: “Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.