Edmund Burke: “We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.”

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.