Edmund Burke: “Add to all these causes the personal character of the king, in which there was nothing uniform or sincere, and which…”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…