They will choose, undoubtedly, out of themselves, men like themselves; and those who are most forward in resisting your authority, those who are most engaged in faction or interest with the delinquents abroad, will be the objects of their selection.
Burke warns that the Proprietors will select Directors who align with their own interests rather than the public good.
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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?
Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…
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.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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