Edmund Burke: “The people of the salt provinces, impatient under taxes damned by the authority which had directed their payment, very…”

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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

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