Excerpt from Thoughts on the Constitution: With a View to the Proposed Reform in the Representation of the People, and Duration of Parliaments

For by what authority is it to be done? The Commonwealth must be first dissolved, and the whole people revert to a state of Nature, where the strongest must prevail, and the only law, be the law of force. But to correct abuses by legal authority: To provide, according to the forms and principles of an antient constitution of Government, for the change of circumstances, into which the lapse of time must inevitably bring all human affairs, has nothing alarming. In short, there is no alteration which the public interest can require, which may not be effected with safety, and without disturbance, by an acknowledged authority, and in the forms prescribed by law.

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