Edmund Burke: “This new, and hitherto unheard-of bill of rights, though made in the name of the whole people, belongs to those…”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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?

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