Edmund Burke: “I wish it were true; but it is not: here again we have experience, and experience is against us.”

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.

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

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.

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