Edmund Burke: “I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, whose Parliamentary trust he has…”

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.