Edmund Burke: “But this and other proceedings show abundantly of what efficacy that court has been for the relief of the unhappy people…”

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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