Edmund Burke: “Now was there ever an instance of a man so basely deserting a duty, and giving so base a reason for it?”

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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