Edmund Burke: “If they act well, they know that, in such a parliament, they will be supported against any intrigue; if they act ill…”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.

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.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…