Edmund Burke: “But let us do what we please to put India from our thoughts, we can do nothing to separate it from our public interest…”

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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