Edmund Burke: “We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good…”

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

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.