Edmund Burke: “In this miserable state we are still further depressed by the overbearing influence of the crown.”

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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

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…