Edmund Burke: “Every step in this business develops more and more the effect of this junction of public monopoly and private influence.”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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

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