Edmund Burke: “Upon the face of the two accounts there is a gross fraud.”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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 king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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.