Edmund Burke: “Hastings stood to his principles in their full extent, and seemed resolved upon unqualified disobedience.”

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…

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

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…