Edmund Burke: “We cannot be insensible of the calamities which have been brought upon this nation by an obstinate adherence to narrow…”

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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.