Edmund Burke: “I cannot bear to think on the causes by which this great plan of policy, so manifestly beneficial to both kingdoms, has…”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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

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…