Edmund Burke: “Whatever has its origin in caprice is sure not to improve in its progress, nor to end in reason.”

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

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.