Edmund Burke: “The complaint or its cause ought to be removed, and wise and lenient arts ought to precede the measures of vigor.”

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

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…

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.