The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
Daniel Webster, Robert Young Hayne (1850). “Webster and Hayne's speeches in the United States Senate, on Mr. Foot's resolution of January 1830: Also, Daniel Webster's speech, in the United States Senate, March 7, 1850, on the slavery compromise”, p.70
