Edmund Burke: “When was it that a king of England wanted wherewithal to make him respected, courted, or perhaps even feared, in every…”

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.

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.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.