Edmund Burke: “If this point of religion is thus given up, the grand instrument for reclaiming France is abandoned.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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

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.