Edmund Burke: “I know, that all parsimony is of a quality approaching to unkindness; and that (on some person or other) every reform…”

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.