Edmund Burke: “It is the soul to the body, without which the man does not exist.”

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.