Government, he does not doubt, is a trust, or, as he prefers, somewhat oddly, to call it, a quasi-contract; but that does not mean that the actual governors can be dismissed when any eccentric happens to take exception to their views.

He has no sympathy with parliamentary reform.

Give the mob an increase of power, he says, and nothing is to be expected but outrage and violence.

He thinks the constitution very well as it is, and those who preach the evils of corruption ought to prove their charges instead of blasphemously asserting that the voice of the people is the voice of God.
Upon America Tucker has doctrines all his own.

He does not doubt that the Americans deserve the worst epithets that can be showered upon them.
Their right to self-government he denied as stoutly as ever George III himself could have desired.