All our loose ideas of justice, as it affects any individual, have in them something of comparison to the situation of others; and no systematic reasoning can wholly free us from such impressions.
Burke argues that our sense of justice is influenced by comparisons to others' situations.
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The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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.
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