Such a being has no occasion for the ordinary faculties of the monikin condition.

Of what use, for instance, is a judgment, or a conscience, to a functionary who can do no wrong?
The law, in order to relieve one on whose shoulders was imposed the burden of the state, had consequently placed the latter especially in the keeping of another.
His majesty's first-cousin is the keeper of his conscience, as is known throughout the realm of Leaphigh.

A memory is the faculty of the least account to a personage who has no conscience; and, while it is not contended that the sovereign is relieved from the possession of his memory by any positive statute law, or direct constitutional provision, it follows, by unavoidable implication, and by all legitimate construction, that, having no occasion to possess such a faculty, it is the legal presumption he is altogether without it.
"That simplicity, lucidity and distinctness, my lords," continued Mr.
Attorney-General, "which are necessary to every well-ordered mind, would be impaired, in the case of his majesty, were his intellectual faculties unnecessarily crowded in this useless manner, and the state would be the sufferer.

My lords, the king reigns, but he does not govern.

This is a fundamental principle of the constitution; nay, it is more--it is the palladium of our liberties! My lords, it is an easy matter to reign in Leaphigh.