But the public was an indignant witness of the ostentation with which the measure was made his own, and the authority with which he brought up clause after clause, to stuff and fatten the rankness of that corrupt act.
Burke critiques the public display of authority in legislative processes, highlighting corruption.
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This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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.
We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.
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