If you have not a power of declaring an incapacity simply by the mere act of declaring it, it is evident to the most ordinary reason you cannot have a right of expulsion, inferring, or rather including, an incapacity.
Burke discusses the implications of declaring incapacity in a legal context, emphasizing the importance of authority in such declarations.
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The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.
Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.
In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.
Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.
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