Edmund Burke: “We know what the empire of opinion is in human nature.”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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?

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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