Edmund Burke: “The truth is, that France is out of itself,--the moral France is separated from the geographical.”

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

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

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.