That the people should not choose their own representative is a saying that shakes the Constitution: that this House should name the representative is a saying which, followed by practice, subverts the Constitution.
Burke warns that denying the people's choice in representation undermines the Constitution.
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The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.
Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.
Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.
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