Edmund Burke: “They begin by rewarding the violation of the ancient law; and then they gravely reenact provisions, of which they have…”

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

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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…

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…