Edmund Burke: “We had been so very powerful, and so very prosperous, that even the humblest of us were degraded into the vices and…”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.