This sensibility of our moral nature is far more acute in that sex which, I may say without any compliment, forms the better and more virtuous part of mankind, and which is at the same time the least protected from the insults and outrages to which this sensibility exposes them.
Burke highlights the heightened sensitivity of women to moral suffering, which makes them particularly vulnerable.
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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.
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.
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
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