This being the case, the bill of rights is more properly a bill of wrongs, and of insult.

As to what is called the convention parliament, it was a thing that made itself, and then made the authority by which it acted.

A few persons got together, and called themselves by that name.

Several of them had never been elected, and none of them for the purpose.
From the time of William a species of government arose, issuing out of this coalition bill of rights; and more so, since the corruption introduced at the Hanover succession by the agency of Walpole; that can be described by no other name than a despotic legislation.

Though the parts may embarrass each other, the whole has no bounds; and the only right it acknowledges out of itself, is the right of petitioning.