But the grand article, and that which cemented all the parts of the fabric of liberty, was this,--that "no freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or banished, or in any wise destroyed, but by judgment of his peers.
Burke cites a fundamental principle of liberty that protects individuals from arbitrary actions.
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No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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