He contented himself with defending the ruling factions in France, and with accusing the public councils of this kingdom of every sort of evil design on the liberties of the people,--declaring distinctly, strongly, and precisely, that the whole danger of the nation was from the growth of the power of the crown.
Burke argues that the true danger to the nation comes from the increasing power of the crown rather than external threats.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
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.
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…
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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