They are, if not enemies, at least not friends, to the orders of their own state,--not to the princes, the clergy, or the nobility; they possess only an attachment to the monarchy, or rather to the persons of the late king and queen.
Burke describes a group that lacks loyalty to their state’s institutions, focusing instead on the monarchy.
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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.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
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