Edmund Burke: “The consternation which this defeat and the death of Harold produced over the kingdom was more fatal than the defeat…”

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?

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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

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