They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this.

But I do say that _in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people_." Nay, experience perhaps justifies him in going further.

When popular discontents are prevalent, something has generally been found amiss in the constitution or the administration.

"The people have no interest in disorder.

When they go wrong, it is their error, and not their crime." And then he quotes the famous passage from the Memoirs of Sully, which both practical politicians and political students should bind about their necks, and write upon the tables of their hearts:--"The revolutions that come to pass in great states are not the result of chance, nor of popular caprice....