The object of Somers, of Maynard, and of the other eminent men who shaped this celebrated motion was, not to leave to posterity a model of definition and partition, but to make the restoration of a tyrant impossible, and to place on the throne a sovereign under whom law and liberty might be secure.

This object they attained by using language which, in a philosophical treatise, would justly be reprehended as inexact and confused.

They cared little whether their major agreed with their conclusion, if the major secured two hundred votes, and the conclusion two hundred more.

In fact the one beauty of the resolution is its inconsistency.

There was a phrase for every subdivision of the majority.