All their principles and their whole scheme of government being republican, they could never excite the smallest degree of enthusiasm in favor of the unhappy monarch, whom they had rendered contemptible, to make him the executive officer in their new commonwealth.
Burke critiques the Constitutionalists for their inability to inspire loyalty to the monarchy, which they have undermined.
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