But when a change of circumstances, especially if derived from the obstinacy of the people, required a new plan of administration, national privileges, he thought, must yield to supreme power; nor could any order of the state oppose any right to the will of the sovereign, directed to the good of the public.[**] * Rush.

vol.ii.p.

257, 258, etc.
** Rush.

vol.iv p 535, 542.
That these principles of government were derived from the uniform tenor of the English laws, it would be rash to affirm.

The fluctuating nature of the constitution, the impatient humor of the people, and the variety of events, had, no doubt, in different ages, produced exceptions and contradictions.