Edmund Burke: “It is impossible (at least I have found it impossible) to fix on the real amount of the pretended debts with which your…”

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.

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?

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.