Edmund Burke: “I claim, not the letter, but the spirit of the old English law,--that is, to be tried by my peers.”

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

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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