Edmund Burke: “Hastings enjoyed that happy repose which branded peculation, fixed and eternized upon the records of the Company, must…”

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.