Edmund Burke: “If the constitutional liberty of the subject were not the thing aimed at, the direct reverse course would be taken.”

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

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

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

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