Edmund Burke: “However, until this be done, the Reformation is not complete: and those who think themselves good Protestants, from…”

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

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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…

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.