Edmund Burke: “Experience is with me, and, I believe, the best opinions also.”

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.

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

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

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.