Edmund Burke: “A sanction was hereby given to all future defiance of every authority in this kingdom.”

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

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.