Edmund Burke: “It ought to have been brought to an immediate and strict discussion.”

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

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

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