Edmund Burke: “They had nothing but faction, bribery, bread, and stage-plays, to debauch them: we have the inflammation of liquor…”

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.