Note 653 — Chapter V
Reading edition
"It is an important question and merits your serious consideration whether a law passed and approved by all the constituted authorities of the State shall be carried into effect, or whether a few individuals not vested with any judicial authority shall be permitted to declare your statutes dangerous and arbitrary, unconstitutional and void: whether a minority of the trustees of a literary institution formed for the education of your children shall be encouraged to inculcate the doctrine of resistance to the law and their example tolerated in disseminating principles of insubordination and rebellion against government." (Plumer's Message, Nov. 20, 1816, Lord, 103.)