Edmund Burke: “On the whole, it appears a mere trading speculation of the Council, invading the department of others, without lights of…”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.