Edmund Burke: “The whole history of Asia is nothing more than precedents to prove the invariable exercise of arbitrary power.”

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

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.