Edmund Burke: “It considers as crimes (that is, the object of punishment) trespasses against those rules for which society was…”

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.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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