Edmund Burke: “It should stand as a fundamental maxim, that no vulgar precaution ought to be employed in the cure of evils which are…”

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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