Edmund Burke: “It is a state of civil servitude, by the very force of the definition.”

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

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?

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