Edmund Burke: “Persons more contumacious may also see that they are resisting terms of perhaps greater freedom and happiness than they…”

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.

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.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.