Edmund Burke: “Can your Lordships believe that this can be any other than a systematical, deliberate fraud, grossly conducted?”

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.