Are all orders, ranks, and distinctions to be confounded, that out of universal anarchy, joined to national bankruptcy, three or four thousand democracies should be formed into eighty-three, and that they may all, by some sort of unknown attractive power, be organized into one?
Burke warns against the confusion of social orders leading to chaos and the formation of unstable democracies.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future 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.
When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.
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.
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