Edmund Burke: “Nothing is plainer than that the people have a right to the laws and the Constitution.”

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

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

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.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…