Charles Sumner: “The distant reign of Richard the Second, beyond the misfortunes touching us so much in Shakespeare, supplies a presiding…”

“The distant reign of Richard the Second, beyond the misfortunes touching us so much in Shakespeare, supplies a presiding rule which has been a pole-star of Constitutional Law; nor is this in any vague, uncertain language, but in the most clear and explicit terms, illumined since by great lights of law.”