Edmund Burke: “Credit cannot exist under the arm of necessity.”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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…

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

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.