Edmund Burke: “You changed the people, you altered the religion, but you never touched the form or the vital substance of free…”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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

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

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.