Edmund Burke: “Everything proposed against America is supposed of course to be in favor of Great Britain.”

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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