Edmund Burke: “The Nabob of Arcot and Rajah of Tanjore have, in truth and substance, no more than a merely civil authority, held in the…”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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…