Edmund Burke: “It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites…”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.