Edmund Burke: “They consider it as the foundation of their whole Constitution, with which, and with every part of which, it holds an…”

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

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

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.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…