Edmund Burke: “Ordinary service must be secured by the motives to ordinary integrity.”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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…