Edmund Burke: “The profession of kindness, with that sword in his hand, and that demand of surrender, is one of the most provoking acts…”

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

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.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.