Then there reigns, absolute and sovereign, the opinion of one party. The guarantees established by this constitution cannot be suspended. Either resignation or despair, or civil war, etc., etc. Then revolution raises its terrible banner, and blood flows in battles and on scaffolds. Experience proves that in the legal combat of the parties the party in power always gains the victory.
Experience shows that the party that conducts itself loyally is swindled and routed.
That justice is forgotten, and success becomes justice. To win, then, is the supreme desideratum. Then chaos emerges. The conservative calls himself a progressive. The liberal protests that he is a loyal Catholic.