Edmund Burke: “I hope, Sir, that, notwithstanding the austerity of the Chair, your good-nature will incline you to some degree of…”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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

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

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.