They who are to live in the vicinity of this new fabric are to prepare to live in perpetual conspiracies and seditions, and to end at last in being conquered, if not to her dominion, to her resemblance.
Burke warns that living near a new power can lead to constant unrest and eventual domination.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…
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.
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