The other Whig managers regarded (as he did) the overturning of the monarchy by a republican faction with the very same horror and detestation with which they regarded the destruction of the privileges of the people by an arbitrary monarch.
Burke describes the shared horror among Whig managers regarding both republican and monarchical abuses of power.
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Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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