Edmund Burke: “He knew that there is nothing interesting in the concerns of men whom we love and honor, that is beneath our attention.”

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

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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 trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.