Mr. Fox treated the associations for prosecuting these libels as tending to prevent the improvement of the human mind, and as a mobbish tyranny.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Nobody can suppose that the consent of a state is any thing more than a fiction, in the view of the federalists, after the mobbish influence used over the Pennsylvania convention.
"Essays on the Constitution of the United States"
Paul Leicester Ford