Edmund Burke: “All Asia is by him disfranchised at a stroke.”

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.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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?

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