Edmund Burke: “They would make him desirous of doing, in his own dominions, by a royal despotism, what has been done in France by a…”

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.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.