Times change, and we change with them.
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.