Edmund Burke: “These counsellors forget that a corrupted army was the very cause of the ruin of his brother-in-law, and that he is…”

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

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.