(¶124)
Those parties, therefore, who reason against any measures necessary for
identifying the interests of the representative body with those of the
nation, under the plea that such a representative body would abolish the
King and the House of Lords, are wholly inconsistent with themselves. They
maintain that a King and a House of Lords, such as ours, are important and
necessary branches of a good government. It is demonstratively certain that
a representative body, the interests of which were identified with those of
the nation, would have no motive to abolish them, if they were not causes
of bad government. Those persons, therefore, who affirm that it would
certainly abolish them, affirm implicitly that they are causes of bad, and
not necessary to good government. This oversight of theirs is truly
surprising.