Edmund Burke: “Not in their fancies, nor in my own: I will seek for it where I know it is to be found,--in the Constitution I actually…”

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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

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