Edmund Burke: “We do not use torture or cruelties, even for the greatest crimes, but have banished them from our courts of justice; we…”

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

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…

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.

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.