No Treason, Vol. VI.

ho pretend to administer it-the properties, liberties, and lives of the entire people of the United States are surrendered unreservedly

peech or debate (or vote), in either house, they (the senators a

entatives (when acting by a two-thirds vote)[e]; and this provis

aws, by giving them power to withhold the salaries of, and to impeach and

and they are made utterly irresponsible for the use they m

what care they, or what should they care, for oaths or limits, when it is expressly provided, by the Constitution itself, that th

ged once in two or six years; for the power of each set of men is absolute during the term for which they hold it; and

is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new mast

Neither can exist without the other. If, therefore, Congress have that absolute and irresponsible law-making power, which the Constitution-according to their interpretation of it-gives them, it can only be because

presentative, and be, at the same time, uncontrollable by me, and irresponsible to me for his acts. It is of no importance that I appointed him, and put all power in his hands. If I made him uncontrollable by me, and irresponsible to me, he is no longer my servant, agent, attorney, or representative. If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over my prope

sted to him. If I have intrusted him, as my agent, with either absolute power, or any power at all, over the persons or properties of other men than myself, I thereby necessarily make myself responsible to those other persons for any injuries he may do them, so long as he acts within the limits of the power I have grant

ll whom they employ. And the authority they are exercising is simply their own individual authority; and, by the law of nature-the highest of all laws-anybody injured by their acts, anybody who is deprived by them of his property or hi