Edmund Burke: “This is, however, saying too little; for to try a man under that act is, in effect, to condemn him unheard.”

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.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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