Edmund Burke: “Our taxes, for the far greater portion, fly over the heads of the lowest classes.”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.