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Loyalty, in the heart and understanding of an englishman, is a rational attachment to the guardian of the laws.

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When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is directly attacked, inferior grievances naturally lose their force, and are suffered to pass by without punishment or observation.

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One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.

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The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

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The government of England is a government of law. We betray ourselves, we contradict the spirit of our laws, and we shake the whole system of English jurisprudence, whenever we entrust a discretionary power over the life, liberty, or fortune of the subject to any man, or set of men, whatsoever, upon a presumption that it will not be abused.

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The least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman, in the laws and constitution of his country, and is equally called upon to make a generous contribution in support of them — whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

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Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

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