Edmund Burke: “For many years past the Company's servants have presided in those courts, and in comparison with their authority the…”

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.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

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.

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