Edmund Burke: “Where it least appears in action, it is still full of life.”

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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