Edmund Burke: “Favoritism, a system of, in the executory government of England, at variance with the plan of the legislature, i. 469.”

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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?

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

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.