Edmund Burke: “I can as little recommend to any other nation a conduct grounded on such principles and productive of such effects.”

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.